Author: Ballot Box Scotland

Following the most disproportionate result in Holyrood’s history, it’s high time we started thinking about how to do things differently, and what would be most effective.

It’s all well and good looking at the headline figures, but you’ve got to get right down into the thick of support and swings – in both votes – across constituencies to really understand what happened last week.

An open letter from Ballot Box Scotland urging significant improvements to reporting on Scottish Parliament elections; or, why does a hobbyist publish more data than the BBC?

Although Holyrood’s partly proportional system makes marginal seats less important, they’re still an interesting and integral part of what makes elections exciting. Here’s how the marginals changed last week.