SNP councillor falls ill at count due to 'shock of result'
Barra and South Uist's Donald Manford was taken to Western Isles Hospital.
A newly re-elected councillor said the "shock of the result" led to him falling ill at the election count.
Paramedics were called to the Stornoway count after Barra and South Uist candidate Donald Manford collapsed.
The SNP councillor is understood to have suffered chest pain. He has since been released from Western Isles Hospital.
Mr Manford said: "Prognoses led medical staff to conclude it was the shock of the volume of support that knocked me over."
A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We received a call at 11.15am on Friday to attend an incident at an address on Springfield Road, Stornoway.
"We sent one ambulance to the scene. One male patient in his sixties was taken to the Western Isles Hospital."