I’m taking one small step for polling, one giant leap for Ballot Box Scotland by launching a dedicated crowdfunder to expand my coverage ahead of the 2022 Local Elections, to fund a poll and a series of articles. […]
During the count for May’s European Elections it became clear that count night needs more than one person on it. I’m therefore excited to announce I’m looking for people to join the Ballot Box Scotland Election Night Team. […]
As promised on Twitter, having hit a nice round number in terms of donations, here’s a sneak-peak at an upcoming project – Ballot Box Battlegrounds. […]
To fill the gap for my first 2019 post, I thought I’d go behind the scenes of this project again to explain why, as you might have noticed, there’s a Westminster seat projection shaped hole in my output. […]
In my polling and projection posts, I’m finding myself quite regularly referring to a concept called “overhang“. This is a quirk of mixed electoral systems like the Additional Member System (AMS) we use for the Scottish Parliament and similar systems […]
Updated May 2020 Basics Since I’ve started this project, I’ve occasionally had folk say they find my “re-calculation for a single councillor” quite dubious. How can you possibly know? Is it educated guesswork? Do I use some kind of complex […]
Hello and welcome to Ballot Box Scotland! This site is intended to be part “Scotland Elects” (if you’re familiar with Britain Elects) and part election results database. You can find out more about the site and progress on features here. For […]
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