Scotland came into the election with 16 marginal seats, and has left with the same number – though only 12 are the same seats. Tactical voting was a story of the election, and seems to have benefitted Labour and Lib Dems more than Conservatives.
Battlegrounds
SP21 – Ballot Box Battlegrounds Bonus Round
– Banffshire and Buchan Coast
– Glasgow Kelvin
– Caithness, Sutherland and Ross
– North East Fife
SP21 – Ballot Box Battlegrounds 4-1
#4 – Aberdeenshire West
#3 – Ayr
#2 – Edinburgh Central
#1 – Dumbarton
SP21 – Ballot Box Battlegrounds 8-5
#8 – Perthshire South and Kinross-shire
#7 – Dumfriesshire
#6 – East Lothian
#5 – Edinburgh Southern
SP21 – Ballot Box Battlegrounds 12-9
#12 – Edinburgh Western
#11 – Edinburgh Pentlands
#10 – Galloway and West Dumfries
#9 – Eastwood
SP21 – Ballot Box Battlegrounds 16-13
#16 – Perthshire North
#15 – Moray
#14 – Aberdeen South and North Kincardine
#13 – Angus North and Mearns
GE19 – Out with the Old Battlegrounds, in with the New
We’ve gone from a whopping 46 marginal constituencies to just under half as many with a much more manageable 22. Whenever the next election rolls around, it now has a completely different set of key battlegrounds to the top 20 most marginal seats I covered in the run up to GE19.
Ballot Box Battlegrounds GE19 – Bonus (b)Round
#25 – East Lothian
#41 – Moray
#47 – East Dunbartonshire
#53 – Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Ballot Box Battlegrounds GE19 – 4-1
#4 – Glasgow East
#3 – Glasgow South West
#2 – Perth and North Perthshire
#1 – North East Fife
Ballot Box Battlegrounds GE19 – 8-5
#8 – Lanark and Hamilton East
#7 – Rutherglen and Hamilton West
#6 – Airdrie and Shotts
#5 – Stirling