Panelbase, 1st-5th May 2020
Apologies for the delay in this full analysis of the third Panelbase poll of the year. Full tables haven’t been available!
Articles by Ballot Box Scotland
Lockdown Fun With Voting Systems
A look at a range of different tweaks to the Holyrood Voting System, because it’s Lockdown and everyone is bored!
YouGov, 24th-27th April 2020
The SSP thing is a weird YouGov blip, everyone, behave yourselves.
Ballot Box Briefing #2 – Scandinavian Style Proportional Representation
Folk who’ve been following Ballot Box Scotland’s output for a while will have noticed the regular appearance of a hypothetical “Scandinavian Style Electoral System”, most commonly as a projection for Scottish Parliament polls. Giving it the depth of explanation it deserves seemed an obvious topic for the second Ballot Box Briefing.
Panelbase, 24th-26th Mar 2020
Much of our lives may be on hold as the globe grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, but in this time of great uncertainty we can at least rely on there being yet another Panelbase poll.
Ballot Box Briefing #1 – Public Funding for Political Parties
Political parties play a vital role in our democracy. Despite this essential status, parties face a very uneven playing field in terms of funding. An easy solution to this would be to provide a substantial portion of party funding from the public purse. The first of these Ballot Box Briefings takes a look at this thorny issue.
Eilean a’ Cheò By-Election Result
The second by-election of the decade took us on our fourth visit to Highland Council since BBS launched, and their fifth by-election since the full council in 2017.
Clackmannanshire East By-Election, 19/03/20
Clackmannanshire absolutely loves a March by-election, so it does. There was one in the North ward in 2018. Then we had one in the Central ward last year. Now it’s East’s turn, as Conservative councillor Bill Mason has resigned for health reasons.
Eilean a’ Cheò (Highland) By-Election, 12/03/2020
We’re still on the west coast of Scotland for 2020’s second council by-election on the 12th of March, but a good bit further north than […]
Panelbase, 28th-31st Jan 2020
The second of Monday’s double polling whammy was from Panelbase. They’d polled a lot more recently than Survation so in that sense it’s less exciting […]