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Local Elections 2027

Summer Special: What do the Holyrood results mean for the 2027 locals?

With a massive transformation at Holyrood this year, we should expect similar next May in council elections: SNP and Conservative crashes, Reform breakthroughs, Labour underperformance, and growth for the Greens and Lib Dems.

by Ballot Box Scotland•July 18, 2026July 17, 2026

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Summer Special: What do the Holyrood results mean for the 2027 locals?

With a massive transformation at Holyrood this year, we should expect similar next May in council elections: SNP and Conservative crashes, Reform breakthroughs, Labour underperformance, and growth for the Greens and Lib Dems.
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Now I don't know about you but if I had setup a localist micro party called the "Edinburgh and East Lothian People's Party", well, for one thing, I wouldn't have stood in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, but I certainly would not stand in Clacton.
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Remember everyone! Deposits are a vital part of our democratic structure, they make sure that only ~serious candidates~ stand for election, they definitely aren't actually a mechanism by which smaller legitimate parties are drained of cash right at the moment in the campaign they need it most!
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Larkhall is a slightly special case, but one of the bits I pick up in here is that whilst Reform beat the SNP and Labour came third, Labour would have beaten both the SNP (by 2%) and Reform (by 2.3%) in a head-to-head, because they were more transfer-attractive here than either party.
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By-Election Result: Larkhall

Reform win their second ever by-election by displacing Labour in one of the most staunchly Pro-Union parts of the country.

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