Addressing a rally in Edinburgh the day before voters go to the polls, Ms Sturgeon said voters in Scotland could hold the key to ensuring the Prime Minister loses her majority at Westminster and urged Liberal Democrat and Labour supporters to switch to her party and avoid "splitting the anti-Tory vote".
SNP veteran and former first minister Alex Salmond has lost his Gordon seat to the Tories, as the nationalists saw their share of the vote slump.
He said: "It is with thanks to the hard work of the Council's election team and staff across the Council, who have worked extremely hard to deliver this election within a short timescale".
Labour won seven and the Liberal Democrats four.
The Conservatives increased their share of the vote in Angus by just over 16% - while Nicola Sturgeon's party saw its support slump by nearly the same amount.
But he was insistent the SNP will win the election north of the border.
Instead he argued that the surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn had led to Left-wing and pro-independence voters switching support from the SNP to Labour, allowing the Tories to come through the middle. The nationalists had swept the board in 2015, winning 56 of the 59 seats up for grabs - leaving Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats with just one MP each.
"What we've got is a crushing result for the SNP, they've lost 20 seats if not more and further than that they've watched their majorities crumble".
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The legislation would reduce those powers. "The director of an agency would be moving with the political wind", Miles said. For numerous country's largest banks, building the bigger financial cushion called for under the bill would be expensive.
"We've hit peak SNP and we've certainly hit peak Nicola Sturgeon".
Until Thursday's United Kingdom vote, the SNP held 56 out of 59 of Scotland's Westminster seats in parliament - a huge measure of support for the party following a narrow independence referendum defeat in 2014.
Mr Salmond bounced back to a prominent role in the SNP as foreign affairs spokesman after stepping down as first minister and party leader after defeat in the Scottish independence referendum in 2014.
The SNP lynchpin and ex-party leader was defeated by Colin Clark in Gordon.
Ged Killen, the party's candidate in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, said in his victory speech the result was a "rejection of a divisive independence referendum".
Mundell said he is "very positive" about how the Tories will perform, saying: "I think we're going to make significant progress across Scotland".
Gavin Newlands has held the neighbouring Paisley and Renfrewshire North seat for the SNP.
Aberdeen South also switched from SNP to Conservative, with MSP Ross Thomson claiming the Westminster constituency.
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