Scottish Greens co-convener Maggie Chapman has been re-elected as rector af Aberdeen University.

Ms Chapman saw off challenges from lawyer James Steel, singer and broadcaster Fiona Kennedy and two university students to win with 58% of the votes.

She will now begin her second three-year term as rector.

Ms Chapman's supporters were embroiled in a campaigning row last year which ended with the election being suspended.

At the start of the year, a group of sixty-two students reportedly nominated the campus cat as a candidate for rector

However, the university's elections committee excluded Buttons from the ballot.