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Scottish National Party and Scotland

parliamentary seats: A Scottish surge The rampant rise of the Scottish National Party has become one of the biggest stories of the election, according to Huffington Post Canada. A recent poll found that the SNP could win every single one of Scotland 59 parliamentary seats, the majority of them currently held by Labour. Will the election yield a clear winner or another messy coalition How will smaller, special-interest parties affect the vote And is it possible Britain will have to go through another election all over again before Christmas, as the current deputy prime minister warned earlier this week With so many questions looming, here are the issues likely to shape today result and its aftermath: 1. If the expected landslide comes to fruition, the SNP influence will dramatically increase in the House of Commons, where it currently holds just six seats. It campaigned for Scotland to break away from the rest of the U.K. in September independence referendum. The SNP is Britain version of the Parti Quebecois. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.