First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has conceded plans for a second independence referendum were "undoubtedly" a factor in the SNP losing 21 seats at Westminster.

The party lost 11 seats to the Conservatives, with former First Minister Alex Salmond being defeated in Gordon by the Tories.

Angus Robertson, the SNP's depute leader, lost his Moray seat to the Conservatives by 4200 votes.

The SNP also lost Mike Weir, who had been the MP for Angus since 2001, and culture spokesman John Nicolson in East Dunbartonshire, while Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh lost out in Ochil and South Perthshire.

Former SNP chief whip Pete Wishart clung onto his seat by just 21 votes in the face of a Tory surge in his Perth and North Perthshire constituency.

Speaking from her official residence of Bute House, Sturgeon said: "Undoubtedly the issue of an independence referendum was a factor in this election result but I think there were other factors in this election result as well."

Brexit, a late surge in support for UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and tactical voting were some of the other factors Sturgeon cited as having contributed to the result.

"I strongly suspect there were independence supporters amongst those who voted for Jeremy Corbyn yesterday," she said, stressing that "rushing to overly-simplistic judgements" about the election was "not the right thing to do".

The SNP won just under 37% of the vote in the election, ending the night with 35 MPs - a result substantially down on the 50% of the vote they secured in 2015 which gave them 56 MPs.

In contrast, the Tory share of the vote went from 15% to 28% as the party's tally of MPs increased from just one to 13.

The First Minister voiced her anger at the Tories, claiming the party has caused "chaos" with the timing of the election.

"In less than a year, they have caused chaos on an industrial scale," she said.

"They forced through an EU referendum. They then embarked on a disastrous Brexit strategy deciding to remove Scotland and the UK from the single market with no idea and no plan of what would come next.

"They then called an election knowing the result would be declared just 11 days, less than two weeks, before the most important negotiations in the UK's modern history were due to start."

The Scottish vote also saw Labour and the Liberal Democrats gain MPs, with seven and four respectively.

Deputy first minister John Swinney has already said plans for a second referendum were a "significant motivator" which lost the SNP support, adding the party would "have to be attentive to that" - indicating perhaps the nationalists might have to draw back from the proposals.

Sturgeon pledged she would "reflect carefully" on the result as she stressed the need for politicians to "try to bring people together to bridge divides and to find a way forward that is routed in consensus".

She also insisted her party had won the election in Scotland - returning more MPs than its rivals combined.