Not exact matches
Labour's share of the
vote in Moray slipped by 3.3 % on
polling day, with the Tories coming second to the
SNP.
«The latest
polls are welcome indications of the strong backing for the
SNP we are seeing
in communities across Scotland - while Labour are continuing to pay the price for working hand
in glove with the Tories during the referendum, and lining up with them at Westminster to
vote for more cuts.
Notwithstanding last May's
SNP election victory, most
polls over the past two years have indicated that more people would
vote against independence than would
vote in favour of it.
Among the Labour seats
polled the
SNP change since 2010 was similar to that
in Scotland - wide
polls but the drop
in the Labour
vote was much bigger, 21 points rather than 15 points.
Much like yesterday's Panelbase
poll in The Sunday Times today's
poll suggests there might have been some narrowing of the
SNP lead
in voting intentions for May's Westminster election.
Since last month's
poll,
in the constituency
vote the
SNP were up one per cent to 53, Labour were also up one to 22, the Tories remain on 16 and the Liberal Democrats down one on six.
Black, who is the
SNP's youth campaign co-ordinator for the Scottish Parliament election, added: «It's troubling to see the latest
polls showing that young people are much less likely to be certain to
vote in the election than other age groups.
If the changes
in vote share since 2010 implied by the YouGov
poll were to be replicated everywhere, the
SNP would win 54 seats, Labour 4 and the Liberal Democrats one (unlike YouGov and The Times I project the Tories to lose Dumfriesshire under this assumption).
The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov
poll in The Sun and The Times showing the party is 20 points behind the
SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster's election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats.
[91] Opinion
polling for the council elections conducted
in early 2017 suggested that the
SNP looked set to repeat this level of success, with 47 % of the public claiming they will be
voting for
SNP candidates on election day.
Assuming the
vote goes how the
SNP are campaigning for it to go — #bothvotesSNP is the Twitter hashtag on the party's campaign literature — and the
polls are suggesting, it is hard to see them not having a similar performance
in 2016.
Crosby's realisation that Lib Dem seats could be taken and that voters
in those constituencies were persuadable, especially when the
polls indicated a Labour majority supported by the
SNP, to
vote Conservative.
Meanwhile the Scottish
poll in the time has topline Westminster
voting intentions of CON 15 %, LAB 27 %, LDEM 4 %,
SNP 43 %.
Since the Scottish referendum we've had Scottish
polls from MORI, Panelbase, YouGov and Survation and they've been consistent
in showing large leads for the
SNP over Labour
in Westminster
voting intentions.
Most current UKIP supporters (and
SNP supporters) have previously
voted Labour, Lib Dem or Conservative (over two thirds according to AW's churn analysis) and, since a little under half of them are not firmly committed to UKIP (Ashcroft's
poll) I contend that it is not unreasonable to theorise that some may do so again
in May.
Heading into the
polling station
in Barlanark, Mr Mason said: «I urge everyone
in Glasgow East, young and old, to go to your
polling station today, cast your
vote for the
SNP and send a strong message to Gordon Brown that it's time for a fair share for the East End.
Some
polls are predicting that the
SNP could win every single seat
in Scotland with barely more than half of all
votes cast.
[121]
In Scotland, support for the SNP continued to grow with polling figures in late March reaching 54 %, with the Labour vote continuing to decline accordingly, [122] while Labour retained their (reduced) lead in Wales, polling at 39 % by the end of the campaign, to 26 % for the Conservatives, 13 % for Plaid Cymru, 12 % for UKIP and 6 % for the Liberal Democrat
In Scotland, support for the
SNP continued to grow with
polling figures
in late March reaching 54 %, with the Labour vote continuing to decline accordingly, [122] while Labour retained their (reduced) lead in Wales, polling at 39 % by the end of the campaign, to 26 % for the Conservatives, 13 % for Plaid Cymru, 12 % for UKIP and 6 % for the Liberal Democrat
in late March reaching 54 %, with the Labour
vote continuing to decline accordingly, [122] while Labour retained their (reduced) lead
in Wales, polling at 39 % by the end of the campaign, to 26 % for the Conservatives, 13 % for Plaid Cymru, 12 % for UKIP and 6 % for the Liberal Democrat
in Wales,
polling at 39 % by the end of the campaign, to 26 % for the Conservatives, 13 % for Plaid Cymru, 12 % for UKIP and 6 % for the Liberal Democrats.
A YouGov
poll for the Daily Telegraph shows the
SNP ahead of Labour
in voting intentions for a UK general election for the first time
in the party's history.
Following the TNS
poll earlier this week that showed the
SNP catching Labour
in Holyrood
voting intentions, there is a new YouGov
poll for the Scotsman that shows them ahead
in constituency
voting intention.
If the
SNP can claim the Labour Not - tory
vote they could be
in third word dictator
polling numbers.
It is also a key part of making progress
in Scotland — a November 2014 Survation
poll found 27 per cent of
SNP voters would be more likely to
vote Labour if we committed to publicly owned Scottish rail services.
The latest
poll points to a Labour lead
in the battle for the Scottish Parliament by 7 % over the
SNP in the regional
votes which are normally the best predictor of the seats each party is likely to win.