Photo: 20Year old undergraduate Emerges UK member of parliament

 In what is threatening to be an election nightmare for the opposition Labour Party, a 20-year-old Scottish student has emerged Britain's youngest lawmaker since 1667 ousting one of Labour's top figures in the process.

Politics student Mhairi Black, representing the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP), took Paisley and Renfrewshire South, a constituency outside Glasgow, from Douglas Alexander, Labour's election chief and a former Cabinet minister.

"It has clearly been a very difficult and disappointing night for the Labour party," Ed Miliband told supporters as he retained his own seat. He cited a "surge of nationalism in Scotland" as having affected the Labour party's results.

Until today, the youngest lawmakers since the Reform Act of 1832, which marked the start of modern parliamentary democracy in Britain, have all been 21, though there are records of teenagers in earlier centuries.

"The people of Scotland are speaking and it's time for their voice to be heard in Westminster,"Ms Black said after the result was announced in the constituency of Paisley & Renfrewshire South, which she will now represent.

Labour is facing being wiped out in Scotland, with an exit poll showing the SNP taking 58 of 59 seats north of the border. At the last election in 2010, Labour took 41 seats there.
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