By-Election Result: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West (2022)
An expected Conservative victory nonetheless bucks national polling trends, with the party gaining ground at the expense of the SNP and Labour despite collapse elsewhere. […]
An expected Conservative victory nonetheless bucks national polling trends, with the party gaining ground at the expense of the SNP and Labour despite collapse elsewhere. […]
2022 has had a fair spate of accidental councillors, leading in this case to a silent exit by the Labour councillor, giving the Conservatives a strong chance at picking up a third seat. […]
Don’t expect anything but a Conservative lead in what is a strong council for them, and the SNP’s weakest on the mainland. The Labour vote may be the one to watch here, both in terms of how it shifts at top level and where transfers go. […]
For the very first Scottish election of the decade, we were down in Dumfries and Galloway. The stonking Conservative figure means this is the first single-seat by-election since Ballot Box Scotland launched two years ago where the winner did so on first preferences. […]
For the New Year – and new decade – we’re going straight into the Mid Galloway and Wigtown West by-election in Dumfries and Galloway. Unfortunately it’s not a very happy way to start, having been prompted by the passing of […]
We finished up 2018 with two by-elections at opposite ends of the country – one in the Highlands and one in Dumfries & Galloway. Both of these are large, rural wards but with quite different political histories. […]
2018’s final by-election will take place in the Dee and Glenkens ward of Dumfries and Galloway Council, following the resignation of Conservative councillor Patsy Gilroy. Gilroy is a long-serving councillor, first elected for one of the single member Kirkudbright wards […]
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