Labour manage to squeeze out a last-round win over the SNP, as bad blood between the Pro-Independence parties costs the SNP too much Green support to hold on.
By-elections
By-Election Result: Cromarty Firth
A rare double vacancy saw a messy scrap for the seats with the Lib Dems and an Independent eventually emerging victorious. Meanwhile, might Reform UK have learned that Scotland is different to England?
By-Election Result: Strathallan
The Lib Dems land a big win in a by-election that demonstrates the clear value of having a fair voting system.
By-Election Result: Perth City North 2024
The SNP manage an easy victory in a by-election they couldn’t afford to lose, and where the three biggest parties bleed varying degrees of support to the smaller ones.
By-Election Preview: Falkirk South (Falkirk) 17th of October 2024
The election of the country’s youngest MP offers the opportunity for Labour to leapfrog into victory from third place in this ward.
By-Election Result: Arran
A contest between three on-island candidates and three off-island no hopers saw Labour emerge victorious, in a by-election notable by the absence of the SNP.
By-Election Preview: Mossend and Holytown (North Lanarkshire) 10th of October 2024
Another by-election following a Labour councillor making the jump to Westminster, something would have to go very wrong for them not to win this one.
By-Election Preview: Fortissat (North Lanarkshire) 10th of October 2024
A Labour vacancy in a ward that’s never had anything but a Labour lead is guaranteed to go there way. What’ll be interesting here is the performance of the harder-line Pro-Union party.
By-Election Preview: Strathmartine (Dundee) 3rd of October 2024
The departure of the council leader leaves the SNP’s majority hanging in the balance, with their best hope of preserving it to upend over a decade of electoral strategy and abandon the other by-election as lost.
By-Election Preview: Lochee (Dundee) 3rd of October 2024
The sad passing of a Labour councillor is likely to be followed by the election of a party colleague, as a narrow SNP lead in 2022 is unlikely to weather the political changes since.