In the weeks leading up to the election, posters are displayed, candidates 'press the flesh', leaflets are handed out in the street or delivered to voters' homes, party workers canvass the electorate and so on. On polling day itself the parties mount 'get out the vote' operations. Until ...
While Gordon had seen – and indeed predicted to friends – the dangerous decline in support for the No campaign as polling day drew closer, he never believed that they would lose. On the night of the referendum, he was nervous only about how narrow the majority for No might be, but ...
Those who voted SNP in the last general election comprised just over half (53%) of the total Yes vote. As the recent tightening in the polls suggested, those who made up their minds late in the campaign were more likely to choose independence. Two thirds of those who decided in the ...
There will be special radio programmes covering the election in Orkney, Shetland, the Highlands, the North East, the Borders and South West. BBC Scotland’s General Election 2017 website will be a prime destination for analysis, features and news from the heart of the ca...
And yet, what the last eight years’ polling shows is that at pretty much ANY point during that time, the SNP could have made any election a de facto referendum and had a coin-flip chance of winning it. In the last four years, while No has led in the majority of polls there have ...
Anthony Wells, associate director of the political team at YouGov, a polling company, also said that most of those who say they are registered to vote by mail say they have already done so. In a phone interview, Wells estimated that between 10 and 20 percent of the individuals in the fi...
As the day of voting approached, the “yes” side began to gain tremendous momentum, and opinion polling indicated that the outcome was very much in question, though the “no” side held an edge. Former Britishprime ministerGordon Brownof theLabour Party, a Scot, played a prominent role as...
UK government officials are confident a majority of Scots are on their side. Private government polling suggests 52% of 2019 SNP voters back the move. That figure is significantly higher when considering the whole electorate. Tonight's carefully-worded statement from the Scottish secretary is evide...
Even worse from your point of view, polling – including one commissioned by this site – consistently shows that an overwhelming majority of Scots think it should be entirely a matter for Holyrood when and how often we hold referendums. That must mean a significant number of unionist voters ...
In the Scottish referendum, Better Together used a similar process, quietly gathering videos of potential prominent “message carriers” and then carefully testing their appeal. Both EU campaigns will want to avoid Better Together’s dilemma when their private polling show...