South Lanarkshire Council's administration yet to be confirmed after election

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The formation of South Lanarkshire Council’s new administration remains up in the air, with no confirmation as to who will be in power.Following last Thursday’s election, the SNP are once again the largest single party on the local authority.The Nationalist group saw off a challenge from Labour but fell short of obtaining an overall majority.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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He said: “It is incredibly difficult to obtain a majority in the STV (single transferable vote) voting system, however as a group we increased our share of the vote and maintained the same number of councillors as last time (27).“We would of course like to form the administration but other groups may also have that aspiration and discussions will be needed with other groups to try and secure support for our position.“It’s too early to give an answer as some of the other groups have not as yet elected their leadership, I have been elected again as the SNP group leader and Maureen Chalmers as deputy leader and when a position becomes clearer I would be happy to share its outcome.”While the SNP retained