Labour manage a better result than most recent trends, largely staying static whilst the SNP vote collapsed. (Sorry for delay, data was not forthcoming. How annoying.)
By-elections
By-Election Preview: Southside Central (Glasgow) 20th of March 2025
A potentially knife-edge contest between Labour and the SNP sees the latter making a play to get a prominent councillor who lost their seat in 2022 back in the chamber.
By-Election Preview: North East (Glasgow) 20th of March 2025
A re-run arising from a fumbled – and thus disqualifying – resignation of November’s winner may be a harder victory for Labour this time around.
By-Election Preview: Broxburn, Uphall and Winchburgh (West Lothian) 13th of March 2025
A return to a ward Labour already won a by-election in looks a much tougher win for them in the current climate, especially given Reform’s continued presence.
By-Election Result: Bannockburn
Labour go fully into reverse, resulting in the first genuine SNP gain in a very long time, and surely calling time on a local administration now consisting of just 4 members.
By-Election Result: Colinton and Fairmilehead (2025)
An absolutely disastrous, yet perhaps well deserved, drubbing for the Lib Dems in bizarre circumstances, but don’t let that disguise a grim result for Labour too.
By-Election Preview: Kilmarnock North (East Ayrshire) 20th of February 2025
A second Killie by-election much harder for Labour to win than the first: if their swing there was replicated, the SNP would still win this one.
By-Election Preview: Kirkintilloch East, North and Twechar (East Dunbartonshire) 13th of February 2025
The last of our Councillor to MP by-elections, the Lib Dems are starting a quite distant third, but that hasn’t stopped them pulling off big wins before.
By-Election Preview: Bannockburn (Stirling) 23rd of January 2025
The sad passing of a Labour stalwart with 44 years experience leaves Labour at risk of being left with a credibility-stretching 4 (of 23) councillor administration.
By-Election Preview: Shetland North (Shetland) 23rd of January 2025
The resignation of an accidental and not entirely willing Labour councillor gives voters in Shetland North the option to vote after they didn’t get to do so in 2022.