Author: Ballot Box Scotland

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.

A dull campaign has nonetheless sent shockwaves through Scottish politics, with a whole new party in parliament and big gains for the smaller established parties at the expense of those, formerly, larger.

The polls are now open, and all that’s left for parties to do is get their own supporters to actually cast their ballot. In the meantime, here’s a run through the most likely outcomes.