NICOLA Sturgeon took time out on election day to make a personal appeal to a voter to make it both votes SNP.

The First Minister was taking pictures outside a polling station in Govanhill, Glasgow when Twitter user Ruth Martin asked her to convince friends to get out and vote.

Martin is heard asking Sturgeon: "Can you tell Andy to vote for SNP?"

She tells Sturgeon that Andy is "not sure" who to vote for and Sturgeon, defending her Glasgow Southside constituency at this election, got right to it.

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She said: "Right Andy, it's Nicola here and I'm asking you cast both votes SNP today. It's really, really, really important so that we get leadership to get us through the crisis and then we can build a better country.

"So please vote SNP two times today."

Martin then wraps up the video saying: "Aww, Nicola, what a legend."

 In the replies to the post, users were encouraging Andy to get out and vote.

User @Shazmac73 replied: "C’mon Andy. Do the right thing."

Another user said: "Brilliant! Love this ... a bit of banter and a bit of fun too ... c'mon Andy!"

Andy Jackson replied saying: "Although it wasn’t for me I’m having it"

And another user shared the video saying Sturgeon was a "legend" for it and that they "can't see any other leader doing this".

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The SNP leader met voters at Annette Street Primary School in Govanhill – serving as a polling station in the Glasgow Southside constituency – along with Roza Salih, who is the lead SNP candidate on the Glasgow regional list.

Salih (below) will become the first former refugee to be elected to Holyrood if she wins a seat, with this year’s poll being the first in which people with refugee status are entitled to vote.

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At the polling station, Sturgeon and Salih met three Syrian Scots who have lived in Scotland for eight years – 63-year-old Adnan Abdulbaki, and Iqbal Abdulbaki and Abdulruhman Abdulbaki, both 20 – as they prepared to cast their vote.

Sturgeon said it is “great we’ve got everybody who lives here able to vote”, saying it is an “exciting” and “special thing to do”, to which they agreed.

She expressed hope that Salih will be an SNP MSP once the votes are counted this weekend.

An interpreter for the Syrian Scots requested a selfie with the First Minister and said his mother is unwell with Covid-19, so asked if she could record a video message for her.

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Sturgeon did so, and in the message she said: “It’s Nicola Sturgeon here, First Minister of Scotland, with your son in Glasgow.

“I understand you’re not well with Covid so I wanted to send you my best wishes for a speedy recovery. Get well soon.”

A man wearing an SNP rosette outside the polling station, alongside a young boy waving an SNP flag, told Sturgeon they will be spending the day “campaigning for Auntie Nicola”.