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By-Election Result: North East (Glasgow) 2025
A bizarre Labour blunder opened the door for the SNP to hand them their worst Scottish defeat since July’s general election.
By-Election Result: Southside Central
In a poor day for Glasgow Labour, the SNP improve on their 2022 position after transfers, whilst the Greens reverse a recent trend of slipping in their core city wards.
By-Election Preview: Glenrothes Central and Thornton (Fife) 24th of April 2025
A vacancy arising from the sad passing of an SNP stalwart looks likely to be a comfortable SNP victory.
Poll Analysis: Survation 6th – 13th of March 2025
The SNP continue to hold a substantial lead over Labour but the lack of a Pro-Independence majority and Reform polling their best yet makes for a challenging landscape.
By-Election Result: Broxburn, Uphall and Winchburgh (2025)
Labour continue to struggle to pick up transfers from a surging Reform UK, allowing the SNP to narrowly squeak a win in a ward Labour easily won an earlier by-election in.
By-Election Result: Kilmarnock North
Background This week’s by-election gave us a relatively rapid return to East Ayrshire, and to Kilmarnock … By-Election Result: Kilmarnock NorthRead more
Poll Analysis: Norstat 11th – 14th of February 2025
Scottish polling continues to show Labour sliding – and frankly, given their behaviour this week, I am breaking convention to say “good, serves them right.”
By-Election Result: Kirkintilloch East, North and Twechar
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-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.