Midlothian – Ballot Box Scotland

Wards Worth Watching: Midlothian

March 10, 2022 Ballot Box Scotland Comments Off

Scotland’s least (naturally) proportional council could just as easily end up a complete tie between three parties as it could a solid SNP breakthrough. […]

Almond and Earn / Midlothian East By-Election Results

March 27, 2021 Ballot Box Scotland Comments Off

We bring a month bursting with by-elections to a close with an expectedly easy Conservative victory in Perthshire, and the SNP as clear winners in what could have been a very tight three-way contest. […]

Midlothian East By-Election, 25/03/2021

February 23, 2021 Ballot Box Scotland Comments Off

An SNP resignation in this ward gives us another one of those extremely tight marginals. It was a near tie between Labour and the actually tied Conservatives and SNP at the crucial stage in the re-calculation, so expect all three to be in with a chance. […]

By-Election Results March 2018

March 25, 2018 Ballot Box Scotland Comments Off

Two by-elections in March this year, in somewhat similar places – in small, historically industrial council areas, that once were heavily Labour but have leaned SNP for the past few years. Not even the Beast from the East could stop […]

Penicuik (MidL) By-Election 22/03/18

March 2, 2018 Ballot Box Scotland Comments Off

After a straight run of three in as many weeks, there’s a bit of a breather before Penicuik goes the polls on the 22nd of March. Sadly, this is another that follows the death of a sitting councillor, Labour’s Adam […]