17th September 2014 Comment
How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum
…same method of internet sampling and the same weighting scheme as that in previous polls the company has conducted for Scotsman Newspapers. The result is thus best compared with the…
6th April 2015 Comment
How England should be governed
…said to the French Ambassador), it puts the SNP on 46%, unchanged from the company’s previous full sized Scottish poll undertaken in the middle of March. Labour are on 29%,…
14th December 2022 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum
…on average (one Don’t Knows are excluded) by 54% to 46%. The Latest Polls Questions could be raised about each of these polls individually. Two came from companies, FindOutNow and…
22nd September 2022 Comment
How Scotland should be governed
…as it is in Northern Ireland, where it has long appeared to be the case that questions of identity and constitutional status have mattered more to voters than arguments about…
1st December 2013 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
…the proportion saying they will vote Yes is exactly the same. If we take the Don’t Knows (some 17% of the latest sample) out of the calculation then the Yes…
22nd June 2014 Comment
Perceptions of government & the Union
Today sees the publication by the Scottish Government of the results of the latest instalment of what has come to be known as the ‘core module’ of the Scottish Social…
16th December 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
The Electoral Commission has released its report on the conduct of the Scottish independence referendum today. For the most part the exercise gets top marks. Voters not only turned out…
25th August 2013 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders Expectations of constitutional change
With the 18th September ‘exactly a year to go’ date coming into view, we can expect a flurry of media interest in the state of the referendum debate – and…
23rd March 2016 Comment
How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum
…long-term trends in public attitudes towards Scotland’s constitutional arrangements. The 2015 SSA, from which these new results come, was conducted between July of last year and January of this, and…
1st February 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
…the sample contains slightly more people who said that they voted SNP in 2010 (33%), than Labour (32%), when of course in reality Labour were ahead by 42% to 20%….