Ipsos MORI (formerly MORI) has been polling Scots on their attitudes to independence and devolution since 1978 and can track how views have changed over nearly 35 years. Although the wording of the question and the method for collecting opinion have occasionally changed, we are able to illustrate...
THE SNP are on course to remain the dominant party in Scottish politics at the 2026 Holyrood election, new polling has found ... King and FM honour former US president Jimmy Carter after his death aged 100 30 Dec 2024 at 7:41am
the disease caused by the virus. While politicians andpunditsdid not universally approve of Sturgeon’s handling of the public health crisis,public opinionpolling revealed that a large majority of those surveyed did. The bounce in popularity that the SNP hoped to carry into the May election, howe...
It wasn’t the membership, they were not asked and current polling shows that the Scottish electorate are two thirds against them! But the SNP administration no longer listen to their membership…..apparently, they know best. I resigned my SNP membership the morning after Jo Cherry was demoted...
UK election: Tories and Labour struggle with the possibility of toxic coalition partners With 50 days to polling Ukip and SNP know they can force hand of bigger parties Wed Mar 18 2015 - 00:01 Unfinished business in Scotland post referendum New opportunity for thriving SNP Mon Jan 26 2015 -...
Curtice (among others) over the question of our use of a 2010 general election vote weighting rather than 2011 Holyrood vote, the conclusion of which was that 2011 Holyrood weighting was widely recommended for use in Scottish opinion polling (see herefor Pr...
The polling evidence is stark. It shows a huge reaction to Scottish separatism in England, beginning at the turn of the century and culminating in the Brexit referendum of 2016; if the Scots wanted to play the nationalist game, so would the English. ...
Well, I am at the end of my political life. My ambitions are behind me. Also, I have been proved right in my critique of the leadership over the past decade, and saw last Thursday coming. A week before polling day, I told journalist Alan Cochrane, off the record, that the SNP would...
Opinion polling in the Scottish Parliament election, 2007 In 2007 Labour lost an election in Scotland for the first time in half a century and the SNP went on to form the Scottish Government. This book explains why. Based on a unique three-wave survey of the Scottish electorate, it can tr...
Should the rest of the UK be entitled to vote in the Scottish independence referendum? Credit:Callum BlackCC BY-SA 2.0 Aspreviously discussed on Democratic Audit, the coming referendum on Scottish independence raises a number of important constitutional issues. However, it also raises some more fun...