By-elections
By-Election Result: Corstorphine and Murrayfield
As expected, the Lib Dems romp home to a stonking victory, handing them complete control of a ward. […]
Edinburgh
By-elections
By-Election Preview: Corstorphine and Murrayfield (Edinburgh) 9th of March 2023
The departure of a dissatisfied SNP councillor opens the door for the Lib Dems to take complete control of this ward. […]
Local Elections 2022
Wards Worth Watching: Edinburgh
Capital cities the world over are highly political diverse – at least where the voting system allows that – and Edinburgh is no different. Expect all five major parties to have a strong presence here, with likely Conservative slippage. […]
By-elections
Craigentinny/Duddingston (Edinburgh) By-Election Result
An easy SNP victory in this ward, though without the bump in support current polling might have suggested. Instead, the Greens and Lib Dems were the parties picking up big increases in support. […]
By-elections
Craigentinny/Duddingston (Edinburgh) By-Election, 12/11/2020
Prompted by an SNP resignation, re-calculating 2017 has Labour close behind. Given each party’s current polling, odds are on the SNP coming out on top. […]
By-elections
Leith Walk By-Election Result
It was an absolute corker in Edinburgh’s Leith Walk ward for the first City council by-election since Ballot Box Scotland launched. Although it was prompted by a Labour resignation, the SNP had a clear lead in the ward in 2017 which I reckoned stood them in good stead for winning the by-election. […]
By-elections
Leith Walk By-Election, 11/04/19
In another first for Ballot Box Scotland, April will see us taking a trip to the capital for the first City by-election since this project started. […]