General Election: The top 10 Tweets from the Scottish winners and losers

SOCIAL MEDIA has been awash with reaction to the snap General Election results.

Here are the top 10 tweets from last night as unsuccessful candidates and newly elected MPs took to Twitter to share their thoughts.

A farewell from the SNP Deputy Leader

Thanks for the kind messages from political friends & foes. It's been an honour to be MP for Moray for 16yrs and wish my successor well.

— Angus Robertson (@AngusRobertson) June 9, 2017

Scottish Greens co-convener on Theresa May’s backfired gamble

Every time I remember that Theresa May threw away a Tory parliamentary majority just days before the Brexit talks, I burst out laughing.

— Patrick Harvie ?? (@patrickharvie) June 9, 2017

SNP MP Pete Wishart won his seat by the narrowest of margins

We did it. Just simply fantastic. Want to thank everyone in P&NP, particularly the 21…. pic.twitter.com/VeWmZfcHBX

— Pete Wishart (@PeteWishart) June 9, 2017

Stuart Donaldson, however, was left looking for a new job

CV update: 25 year old who took 2 years out to be an MP, now ready to re-enter the real world.

— Stuart Donaldson (@StuieDonaldson) June 9, 2017

Kirsten Oswald, who toppled Jim Murphy in 2015, lost her East Renfrewshire seat to the Tories.

Thanks to the amazing @theSNP activists who fought so hard here. So grateful to have had opportunity to represent our fantastic East Ren.

— Kirsten Oswald (@kirstenoswald) June 9, 2017

Celebration for Tory John Lamont

Delighted to have been elected as the MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk. Thank you to everyone who put their trust in me. #GE17

— John Lamont MP ????????? (@John2Win) June 9, 2017

Tommy Sheppard celebrates keeping the Conservatives out of the Edinburgh seats

Scotland's capital officially a Tory free zone. Well done to my @theSNP chums @DeidreBrock & @joannaccherry – three out of five ain't bad.

— Tommy Sheppard MP (@TommySheppard) June 9, 2017

Aberdeen South turned from yellow to blue.

Huge thank you to all these fantastic folks and everyone who's supported me, now and in '15. It has been a blast, just wasn't to be tonight. pic.twitter.com/KxcOItnRaT

— Callum McCaig (@callum_mccaig) June 9, 2017

Former West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP Stuart Donaldson thanked supporters

Sad night but just the end of the beginning. Thank you to everyone who voted and supported me.

— Stuart Donaldson (@StuieDonaldson) June 9, 2017

Another from Patrick Harvie, celebrating the election of his colleague

Delighted to see @CarolineLucas returned with another 10% increase in her vote share. Congratulations! https://t.co/xOnb1n5FWC

— Patrick Harvie ?? (@patrickharvie) June 9, 2017