Evidence and Confusion: More on Recent Scottish Polling

3rd November 2014 Comment Elections, parties & leaders Expectations of constitutional change How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum

A further tranche of results from YouGov’s poll for The Times was released on Saturday, while additional findings from Ipsos MORI’s poll for STV are also now available. Between them they contain a few points that are worth noting – on independence, more devolution, further referendums and the party battle. Independence Saturday’s Times greeted us […]




YouGov Confirm SNP Well Ahead

31st October 2014 Comment Elections, parties & leaders

A bit like buses, after a dearth of polling for a few weeks, not just one, but two Scottish polls were released yesterday. Following on from Ipsos MORI’s poll for STV released yesterday lunchtime, last night a YouGov poll for The Times was published. Although its results are not as dramatic as those of Ipsos […]




Ipsos MORI Give SNP Record Westminster Poll Rating

30th October 2014 Comment Elections, parties & leaders

Ever since 18 September, Labour have been fretting about the impact the referendum campaign may have had on their prospects north of the border in next May’s Westminster election. Although the party was on the winning side in the referendum, the Yes vote was relatively high in the less affluent and thus more Labour parts […]