Scottish National Party, SNP, candidate John Mason celebrates his win at the Tollcross Park Leisure Center, in Glasgow after polls closed in the Glasgow East, Scotland by-election late Thursday July 24, 2008. Beleaguered British prime Minister Gordon Brown faced further woes Friday after his party was defeated in a special election in one of its strongholds. The Scottish National Party overturned a big Labour majority to take the seat of Glasgow East, a working-class area that is longtime Labour territory. The Scottish nationalists say the result of Thursday's vote is a political earthquake. Labour won Glasgow East by more than 13,000 votes in the 2005 national election, but this time a huge voter swing saw SNP candidate John Mason take it by 365 votes. (AP Photo/David Cheskin/PA Wire) by JILL LAWLESS Associated Press Writer...
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