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by Ballot Box Scotland•January 22, 2018November 14, 2021

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot 3 days

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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Larkhall (South Lanarkshire) by-election, first preferences (vs 2022):

Reform UK: 1150 (35.2%, new)
SNP: 975 (29.9%, +1.0)
Labour: 799 (24.5%, -8.5)
Conservative: 342 (10.5%, -14)

Reform UK elected stage 4.
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot 4 days

I don't know why councils occasionally do this. It's not legal to get up on stage and go "The winning candidate won this many votes, now go away until tomorrow if you want anyone else's figures", so why are they not taking the few extra seconds to add everyone's votes or a photo of the declaration?
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot 5 days

By-election underway for South Lanarkshire's Larkhall ward. After having failed one test last week, this is another key test of Reform's electability in a very different type of area they would expect to do well in. If they can't pull off a win, it'll almost certainly be Labour instead.

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