the party won more than 30 percent of the Scottish vote and took 11 of the 71 Scottish seats in the BritishParliament. In later years the party was supported consistently in opinion polls by 20 to 25 percent of Scottish voters, making it the second most popular party in Scotland after Labo...
Since the penny started to drop that Nigel Farage and Reform may be emerging as serious contenders for power at the next general election, I've been repeatedly making the point that this could pote... Reform UK support climbs to new high watermark in Techne poll ...
Struggling with weak personal ratings, opinion polls have predicted that he is facing the prospect of Labour winning back many central belt seats if voters punish the 17-year SNP administration at the general election. Holyrood politics has also been overshadowed by the ongoing police investigation i...
with his views on why opinion polls in Scotland by different polling companies have produced consistently divergent results on the question of the Scottish independence referendum. His argument was that YouGov’s polling in Scotland was superior to that of Surva...
The Scottish National Party (SNP) won control of Scotland's devolved government in the 2007 election yet opinion polls show no majority for its objective of independence in Europe. While the party is adept at exploiting short-term political opportunity structures in the wider British context, as ...
The Scottish National Party (SNP) won control of Scotland's devolved government in the 2007 election yet opinion polls show no majority for its objective of independence in Europe. While the party is adept at exploiting short-term political opportunity structures in the wider British context, as ...
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In 2007, Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister and Labour Leader and Brown was chosen to replace him in an uncontested election. After initial rises in opinion polls following Brown becoming Prime Minister, Labour's popularity declined with the onset of a recession in 2008, leading to ...
In the early 1980s, support for independence was relatively low, never exceeding 25%, coinciding with a time of internal ructions and poor electoral performance of the SNP (support for the party fell to 11.7% at the 1983 General Election). It was not until the later years of the Thatcher...
InBritain’s1992 general election, Sturgeon was Scotland’s youngest parliamentary candidate, still some weeks short of her 22nd birthday. She won a seat as a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) in the new legislative body’s first election in 1999. For the next eight years the SNP was...