Holyrood

Ipsos MORI, 2nd-9th of October 2020

October 14, 2020 Ballot Box Scotland 0

Starkly different to the overlapping ComRes poll, Ipsos MORI find a large SNP majority, grim results for Labour, and the highest support for Independence yet seen. […]

ComRes, 9th of October 2020

October 12, 2020 Ballot Box Scotland 0

A second poll from our newest (hopefully regular) agency has the SNP on a knife-edge majority, Labour continuing a modest polling recovery, and the strongest Green result in well over a year. […]

Survation, 2nd-7th of September 2020

September 11, 2020 Ballot Box Scotland 4

A fourth poll from a different agency in a row sees the SNP maintain a commanding lead, but the first Labour lead in seats versus the Conservatives in nearly two years. […]

ComRes, 6th-13th of August 2020

August 20, 2020 Ballot Box Scotland 0

Following last week’s YouGov poll, we’ve had a new kid on the block in the form of Savanta ComRes. Although ComRes aren’t a new pollster overall, they are new to Scottish polling. […]

YouGov, 6th-10th August 2020

August 12, 2020 Ballot Box Scotland 2

Scottish polling seems to have settled into a roughly monthly rhythm at the moment, though after months of Panelbase polls it’s nice to have a bit of a change with a YouGov. […]

AMS – Neither Complex nor Broken

July 20, 2020 Ballot Box Scotland 0

I’m not entirely sure why, but there are two particular misconceptions about Holyrood’s voting system that pop up frequently amongst journalists. AMS isn’t “complex”, and the SNP didn’t break it in 2011 – and you don’t need to be a mathematical genius to understand either of these things. […]