Numerous votes her party lost on Thursday went to the Scottish Conservatives, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats, all of whom have indicated an unwillingness to support another referendum.
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.
Yesterday Davidson continued to flex her new found muscles by seeking assurances from May that her attempts to form a coalition with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party would not result in any erosion of gay rights.
"We have heard the First Minister say she will "reflect" on the matter".
The result - which Sturgeon described as "disappointing" - raises serious questions about whether the SNP will push ahead with its pledge to hold a second referendum on independence.
Mr Murray, who was elected as Labour's only Scottish MP in 2015, held the Edinburgh South seat with 26,269 votes.
SNP MPs who last night lost their seats have paid the price for what was a massive political miscalculation on Nicola Sturgeon's part.
However, the Daily Record said Mr Sturgeon dodged the issue of Scotland's future in her morning-after speech.
Last year's vote for Britain to leave the European Union had fuelled separatists' ambitions to take Scotland out of the 300-year-old British union, but the election results could serve to dash them again.
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As an advocate of the United Kingdom remaining in the single market, Davidson also repeated her hopes that there would be an "open" Brexit, in spite of May's pursuit of a hard Brexit. At the time of writing it has won 34 of Scotland's seats, down from 56, and 37% of the vote, versus almost 50% last time around.
The Tories saw double-digit increases in their vote in nearly every seat and doubled their returns in some parts of Scotland where the party was previously unelectable.
A number of SNP big beasts were defenestrated, including former first minster Alex Salmond and deputy leader Angus Robertson.
The Scottish Parliament gave the green light for a second independence referendum in March, but any vote would need to ratified by Westminster, and Prime Minister Theresa May has already rejected this timetable.
Sturgeon vowed to reflect, listen and consider the way forward after the SNP lost 21 seats in parliament in the general election.
There may be no immediate prospect of a progressive alliance, the once ubiquitously popular Sturgeon may have lost some of her shine, and the campaign for a second referendum is becalmed - for the time being.
The Scottish Conservative leader will now have more influence, given her party's success at the polls, the paper adds.
Speaking to Scottish voters, Robertson said that the message emerging from the country was that the SNP's drive for a second independence referendum has driven voters away from them. "We got more seats. than all the other parties combined".
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