Scottish Labour's candidate William Rooney has won the Kilpatrick by-election.
The vote was held following the resignation of Douglas McAllister who won this year's General Election and became MP for West Dunbartonshire.
Rooney will now join Labour councillor Laurence O'Neill and SNP councillor Gordon Scanlan in representing the people of Duntocher, Faifley and Hardgate.
The voting turnout for this by-election was 19.2% which meant 1,705 out of the eligible 8,879 voters took to the polls today.
Polls were open on Thursday, November 28 from 7am to 10pm with four polling stations open across the ward.
The count began as soon as the polls closed and the result was announced at 00.30am.
The voting process took six stages to complete where the votes of the least successful candidate were reallocated to their second choice under the Single Transferable Voting system.
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