Co-operation
The question of which party - if any - will take control of Stirling Council is still in the balance despite all the results being announced.
The SNP have the most councillors for any individual party with eight - but with 23 members in total within the council it is far from an outright majority.
Following the 2017 election, when they secured nine seats, the SNP formed a joint administration with the four Labour councillors.
However, this time round Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has ruled out any Labour coalitions with the SNP, meaning the Nationalists can no longer rely on the Stirling Council Labour contingent - whose numbers have been boosted to six. Previous council administrations, however, have seen Labour and the Tories join forces against the SNP.
Whether Labour - who could again be the “kingmakers” - will see fit to do the same with the seven Tory councillors in the new council, however, remains to be seen.
Green councillor Alasdair Tollemache returns to the council. While he has generally voted with the SNP on most issues, he has stopped short of officially joining forces.
Alasdair Macpherson, meanwhile, returns - but this time as an Independent.
He resigned from the SNP citing disillusionment with the party and concerns over unpopular changes by the Snp/labour administration to the waste collection service - and