1st April 2015 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
We have had many a Scotland-wide poll that has suggested that Labour are in deep trouble north of the border. We have also had 19 polls conducted in individual Labour-held constituencies by Lord Ashcroft, in 17 of which Labour were reported to be behind. Now we have a third kind of poll that conveys much […]
23rd March 2015 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
Another poll, another set of numbers to strike fear into the heart of the Labour party. Today’s come from an ICM (online) poll for The Guardian, which is a follow-up to an initial poll the newspaper commissioned from ICM last December, shortly after Jim Murphy was elected as Labour’s Scottish leader. The poll puts the […]
23rd March 2015 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
The graph below shows the latest What Scotland Thinks/ScotCen Poll of Polls of voting intentions in Scotland for the 2015 UK general election and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by Survation, one poll by ICM, and one by YouGov. Between them the four polls […]
20th March 2015 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
This month’s Survation poll for the Daily Record was released earlier today. It fails to provide any relief for Labour. The SNP are estimated to be on 47% of the vote, 21 points ahead of Labour on 26%. That actually represents a two point swing from Labour to the SNP since Survation’s poll last month, […]
20th March 2015 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
The graph below shows the latest What Scotland Thinks/ScotCen Poll of Polls of voting intentions in Scotland for the 2015 UK general election and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by Survation, one by YouGov, and one by TNS BMRB. Between them the four polls […]
13th March 2015 Comment
How Scotland should be governed
Rather remarkably the SNP have in recent days become one of the central talking points of the UK-wide general election campaign, thanks to Conservative attempts to push Labour into ruling out any kind of post-election deal with the SNP. Doubtless the SNP themselves are lapping up the implicit acknowledgement from their opponents that they seem […]
13th March 2015 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
The graph below shows the latest What Scotland Thinks/ScotCen Poll of Polls of voting intentions in Scotland for the 2015 UK general election and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by YouGov, one poll by TNS BMRB, and one by Survation. Between them the four […]
4th March 2015 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
Last month Lord Ashcroft published polls of voting intentions in 16 individual constituencies in Scotland that showed the SNP ahead in all but one, Glasgow NE, the seat with the largest Labour lead over the SNP anywhere in Scotland. The findings seemed to confirm extrapolations made from Scotland-wide polls that suggested the SNP were on […]
27th February 2015 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
February has (almost) come and gone and there is still no sign of Labour making any significant inroad into the SNP’s lead in voting intentions for May’s Westminster election – which is now little more than two months away. In their latest monthly poll published today, TNS BMRB actually put the SNP up 5 points […]
27th February 2015 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
The graph below shows the latest What Scotland Thinks/ScotCen Poll of Polls of voting intentions in Scotland for the 2015 UK general election and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by TNS BMRB, one by Survation and one by YouGov. Between them the four polls […]