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Battlegrounds

SP26: Ballot Box Battlegrounds Bonus Round 2 (Wildcards + Central and Lothians West Region)
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SP26: Ballot Box Battlegrounds Bonus Round 2 (Wildcards + Central and Lothians West Region)

#48: Inverness and Nairn
#49: Edinburgh Northern
#56: Strathkelvin and Bearsden
#68: Glasgow Southside
#71: Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
Plus Central Scotland and Lothians West region

by Ballot Box Scotland•March 27, 2026April 28, 2026
SP26: Ballot Box Battlegrounds Bonus Round 1 (Near Marginals + Mid and Fife Region)
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SP26: Ballot Box Battlegrounds Bonus Round 1 (Near Marginals + Mid and Fife Region)

#17: Perthshire North
#18: Edinburgh Central
#21: Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse
#22: Rutherglen and Cambuslang
#26: Uddingston and Bellshill
Plus Mid Scotland and Fife Region

by Ballot Box Scotland•March 26, 2026April 28, 2026
SP26: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 1-5 (+ West Region)
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SP26: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 1-5 (+ West Region)

#5: Edinburgh Southern
#4: Dumbarton
#3: East Lothian Coast and Lammermuirs
#2: Banffshire and Buchan Coast
#1: Ayr
Plus West Scotland Region

by Ballot Box Scotland•March 25, 2026April 28, 2026
SP26: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 6-10 (+ North East Region)
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SP26: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 6-10 (+ North East Region)

#10: Shetland Islands
#9: Eastwood
#8: Aberdeenshire East
#7: Perthshire South and Kinross-shire
#6: Aberdeen Deeside and North Kincardine
Plus North East Scotland Region

by Ballot Box Scotland•March 24, 2026April 28, 2026
SP26: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 11-16 (+ South Region)
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SP26: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 11-16 (+ South Region)

#16: Angus North and Mearns
#15: Dumfriesshire
#14: Aberdeenshire West
#13: Moray
#12: Galloway and West Dumfries
#11: Caithness, Sutherland and Ross
Plus South Scotland Region

by Ballot Box Scotland•March 23, 2026April 28, 2026
GE24: Mayhem in the Marginals
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GE24: Mayhem in the Marginals

Marginality has meant next to nothing in Scotland at recent elections, and so it proved again this year. That caveat in mind for future, what seats ended up most closely run this time around?

by Ballot Box Scotland•July 8, 2024July 8, 2024
GE24: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 5-1
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GE24: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 5-1

The fourth and final entry in the Ballot Box Battlegrounds series for this election covers Perth and Kinross-shire; Mid Dunbartonshire; Dumfries and Galloway; West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine; and North East Fife.

by Ballot Box Scotland•June 20, 2024June 19, 2024
GE24: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 9-6
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GE24: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 9-6

The third entry in the Ballot Box Battlegrounds series for this election covers Aberdeenshire North and Moray East; Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey; Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock; and Lothian East.

by Ballot Box Scotland•June 19, 2024June 19, 2024
GE24: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 13-10
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GE24: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 13-10

The second entry in the Ballot Box Battlegrounds series for this election covers Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy; Gordon and Buchan; Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; and Edinburgh West.

by Ballot Box Scotland•June 18, 2024June 17, 2024
GE24: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 17-14
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GE24: Ballot Box Battlegrounds 17-14

The first entry in the Ballot Box Battlegrounds series for this election covers East Renfrewshire; Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk; Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber; and Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.

by Ballot Box Scotland•June 17, 2024June 17, 2024

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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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    Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot 4 days

    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.
  • View post by Ballot Box Scotland on Bluesky

    Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot 4 days

    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?
  • View post by Ballot Box Scotland on Bluesky

    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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