When Theresa May finally rejected that bid, Sturgeon put a second independence referendum back on the table as being the only way Scots could have the chance to vote their way out of Brexit - fully expecting she had two years to build her case while May stumbled deeper into the mire of Brexit.
While the the SNP won almost all available seats in 2015, this was largely because the pro-independence vote rallied behind one party, whereas the Unionist vote was split three ways between Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
Thursday's surprise election result in Britain came as a severe setback for one of the most powerful women in the nation, and one of Prime Minister Theresa May's strongest opponents, as Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish National Party lost about a third of its parliamentary seats.
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party leader Ruth Davidson speak during a general election campaign visit to a removals depot in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 5, 2017.
Duncan Glassey, founding partner and director of Edinburgh-based IFA Wealthflow said this result reflects Scots wanting to "stand tall" with the rest of the United Kingdom on the big challenges Brexit presents.
"We know when she took over. one of the things she spoke most passionately about was keeping the union together".
Ms Davidson said: "SNP MPs who last night lost their seats have paid the price for what was a massive political miscalculation on Nicola Sturgeon's part".
On Friday, the first minister hinted that this timetable might be changing.
Elsewhere, high-profile SNP MPs like Paisley's Mhairi Black, who in 2015 at the age of 20 was elected as the country's youngest MP, kept her seat despite early jitters that she might lose it.
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In March, the Scottish parliament backed Sturgeon's proposal to ask for their second referendum on independence.
Mrs Whiteford, who has a PhD, was returned to Westminster two years ago with a majority of 14,339 in 2015, and hit the headlines in recent months with her Bill to get the UK Government to ratify the Istanbul Convention on violence against women and girls.
In 2007 and 2011 they mainly backed the SNP, before flirting with the Greens again in 2016.
Ruth Davidson was hailed her party's hero of the night as the tartan Tory surge ended for a generation Nicola Sturgeon's dream of a second independence referendum.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said her new MPs will be firm opponents of a second independence referendum. While official data has yet to be released, it is possible that some of these people abandoned the SNP in order to vote for a party that was more committed to Brexit, such as the Conservatives, or, potentially, Labour.
It is often forgotten that a third of SNP voters backed Brexit in the European Union referendum past year.
Speaking as the SNP's deputy leader lost his Moray seat to Conservative challenger Douglas Ross, Robertson said that he had "noticed some sensitivity with Angus Robertson" on the campaign trail.
"Of course we'll listen and reflect, it's too premature to say what we'll do next around that".
"The result of the election has sent a clear message that voters do not want a return to the division of 2014 - even senior Nationalist figures such as Alex Neil and Kenny MacAskill have acknowledged that".
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