She told BBC Scotland that the document would reserve the right to call another vote if there was a “material change” in circumstances, but that the SNP would be the sole arbiter in deciding if this test was met.
The Liberal Democrat, who was at the heart of the coalition government, is one of many who have been ousted from office in the wake of the SNP's historic landslide.
He said "there's a lion roaring in Scotland tonight" which cannot be ignored. But becoming the public face of spending cuts and a Tory chancellor's deputy has cost the former head of communications at the Cairngorms National Park Authority.
We are in contention in a lot more seats than the BBC exit poll shows." They will investigate suspicions that someone entered a polling station in the Glasgow East constituency and crossed a ballot paper under another person's name. As well as being a prolific tweeter, he was a member of the bands Runrig - of Loch Lomond fame - and Big Country. Mr Salmond, who returned to Parliament as MP for Gordon, said: "There's going to be a lion roaring tonight, a Scottish lion, and it's going to roar with a voice that no government of whatever political complexion is going to be able to ignore." Several Lib Dem MPs skipped his 'alternative fiscal plan' in March, and now it appears several voters will be skipping his name on the ballot paper as they scan for the SNP candidate. By-elections are held for seats that become vacant. On Thursday, he beat former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy in Ross, Skye and Lochaber.
He said swings of up to 35% to SNP is "unprecedented" in a general election. "The flame of Highland liberalism will keep burning and our job is to make it burn brighter in the years to come." Mr Nicolson has been a member of the SNP since he was 16.The new MP for Glasgow East comes from a family of SNP activists - her mother is a councillor and her aunt is an MSP.
But the voice told a different story - one of resignation that the SNP tidal will sweep away the vast bulk of the 41 seats they currently hold. If we apply Ashcroft’s polls across Scotland, the SNP is projected to win 48 per cent of the Scottish vote, and Labour just 23 per cent. SNP take Gordon Brown's former seat of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath with majority of 9,974.
"I think people wanted the stability that a Conservative or Conservative-led government would bring. However, she impressed voters south of the border in the leaders’ debates so much that some people outside of Scotland wanted to vote for her party, with “can I vote for the SNP” featuring on Google’s list of most searched-for terms following the ITV debate.
Throughout the 1950s, this was the Liberals' only Scottish seat. Salmond is speaking to the BBC from Angus.
The new MP for Glasgow East poses with SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, and other newly elected SNP MPs Patrick Grady and Christopher Stephens
Planning on pulling an election all nighter? But who are the men and women representing the party at Westminster?
That is a complete reversal of 2010, when Labour won 42 per cent and the SNP 20 per cent.