Sentences with phrase «scottish election polls»

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This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

«While a recent poll showed that the Lib Dems have lost support since axing Charles Kennedy, the SNP are moving forward as we engage with Labour in a head to head contest for the 2007 Scottish election,» Mr Salmond said.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has received a major boost ahead of next May's Holyrood elections as a poll finds more than half of voters now back independence.

A recent poll for TNS - BRMB showed those aged between 16 and 24 are least likely to be «certain to vote» in the Scottish Parliament election — with a net rating of 62 per cent, compared to 83 per cent for those aged 55 to 64.

Jim Murphy's election as Scottish Labour leader two months ago did lead to a change in the party's fortunes in the polls, but he has more recently taken some interesting strategic positions.

Today's Times carries the final opinion poll of the Scottish Parliament election campaign, conducted by YouGov between Monday and yesterday.

Its standing in polls of vote intentions for Scottish Parliament elections averaged just 16 %, while its reading on vote intentions for a Westminster election were, at 14 %, even slightly worse.

This was a reference to the events of late July and early August 2008 which followed Labour's defeat to the Scottish National Party in the Glasgow East by - election when, with a demoralised Gordon Brown on holiday in Suffolk, with Labour as many as 25 points behind in the polls, and with MPs insurgent and openly discussing a leadership challenge, Miliband made his move.

Last week a poll from Survation suggested that the huff and puff of the campaign, including not least two televised leader debates that took place either side of the Easter weekend, had not made much difference to the balance of voting intentions for next month's Scottish Parliament election.

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.

Any hopes that Labour might have that the election of Mr Murphy as its Scottish leader would prove to be a magic bullet are dispelled by the first poll to be conducted since he won the crown.

I mean his personal popularity across the UK plummeted to it's lowest level ever in the autumn but, and this may come as a genuine shock to some, he is a Conservative prime minister at the end of the day, and more than this, he is a Conservative prime minister addressing Scottish people, 83 % of whom voted against him at the General Election and many of whom are still a bit miffed about that whole poll tax business.

Despite the close polls and the surge of the Scottish National Party, the UK election result of a single party majority government is one almost no one predicted.

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.

According to the same poll, just over half (51 %) of those who voted Conservative in last year's general election think the UK government should have control over these areas of policy, while only one in three (33 %) think that the Scottish Parliament should.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) had done well in opinion polls running up to the election, gaining 40 % in some approval ratings, but this level of support was not maintained.

Scottish independence remains decisive factor for voters at Holyrood election, poll reveals 24 March 2016

Election 2015: Exclusive Daily Record poll predicts disaster for Murphy's Labour in Scottish heartlands 6 May 2015

Scottish Labour is looking to press home the party's lead in the polls nine months ahead of next year's Holyrood elections.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) are currently doing well in the polls ahead of May's Holyrood elections, and recent surveys have suggested as many as half of all Scots would support the party's call for an independent Scotland.

Poll bombshell for Ed Miliband shows Scottish distrust of Labour sending party towards General Election catastrophe 17 November 2014

Despite a consistent poll lead for the SNP, the Labour leader Jack McConnell has insisted there is still «all to play for» ahead of next week's Scottish election.

«Of course the poll today is a blow to the Scottish Labour party... If this poll is repeated on election day, David Cameron will be uncorking his champagne, because he might cling onto power.

As it is, the next political events we have too look forward to aren't about Great Britain anyway, but the Scottish, Welsh and London elections next year — I'm sure polling on them will start firing up in the next few months.

Latest YouGov poll suggests Labour will win the Scottish Parliament election, with the Lib Dems faring especially badly

Ms Dugdale, who launched Labour's manifesto for the Holyrood election this morning, is the only Scottish party leader to have a negative approval rating, according to an opinion poll conducted by Ipsos MORI for STV News.

Indeed, I argue that the dual outcomes of last year's independence referendum of devo - max and greater success for the SNP in Westminster elections, coupled with the peculiar current polling arithmetic whereby no government can be formed without the backing of Scottish nationalists, leads to a situation in which the West Lothian Question is maximised to its greatest possible level of inequity between the UK's constituent nations.

He is partly inspired by his unexpected victory in the 2011 Scottish parliament election, in which he overturned a 20 - point deficit in the polls.

At the start of the campaign for the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, Labour were behind the Scottish National Party (SNP) in most of the opinion polls.

In 1997, Alexander, then a practising lawyer in Scotland, took leave of absence to share the Treasury office in which Miliband was working as a special adviser; in 1999 they were both responsible for the Scottish Parliament election campaign that overturned the Scottish National Party's poll lead.

Just realised I've missed an Ipsos MORI poll of Scottish voting intentions here, MORI's first Scottish voting figures since the general election.

The poll will deeply alarm Ed Miliband, the UK Labour leader, who arrived in Glasgow on Thursday for the Scottish party's annual fundraising dinner, which comes during its most bruising period since Alex Salmond's landslide Holyrood election victory in 2011.

Polls suggest Nicola Sturgeon's party are on track to win a second majority term at Holyrood in the Scottish elections in seven months.

Jim Murphy, the clear favourite to become the next Scottish Labour leader, has accused his party of lacking passion and vision as a shock poll showed Labour faces being almost wiped out by the Scottish National party at the general election.

According to a Daily Record poll from January, the largest proportion of Scottish voters want to see Labour govern with SNP support after the general election.

The elections held last Thursday, 5 of May — to elect the London Mayor, London Assembly, Northern Ireland and Welsh Assemblies as well as Scottish Parliament among others — were the first time polls were to be tested since their blunder in the 2015 Westminster elections.

Since then, Scottish Labour has been absolutely decimated as a political force in Scotland and its poll ratings ahead of local elections in May are abysmal.

«Latest YouGov poll suggests Labour will win the Scottish Parliament election, with the Lib Dems faring especially badly Main Labour hold Barnsley Central as Lib Dems fall to sixth place and lose deposit»

Tagged: Opinion Polls · Scotland · Scottish Leadership election · SNP

«Surveying over 10,000 people, the poll gives an insight into voting intentions for the next Scottish elections, opinions of party leaders and achievements of the Scottish Parliament, while putting support for independence at 26 per cent, the no vote at 65 per cent and just 10 per cent undecided.»

Labour faces losing its last Scottish seat in the election on June 8 as opinion polls show voters are deserting the party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

As the SNP launch their campaign for the Scottish Parliament elections, Labour faces a much closer fight than it hoped according to the latest Ipsos MORI poll for the Times (#).

The legislation does what it says on the tin, basically making provision about the determination of the day of the poll at the first ordinary general election for membership of the Scottish Parliament after 2016 and about the year in which local government elections fall to be held.

However, this is still the best Westminster poll showing for Labour since last year's disastrous Scottish Parliament elections.

The polling came as the Labour leader prepared to address a Scottish fundraising dinner in Glasgow, where he warned the party faces one of the hardest battles it had ever faced in the six months to May's general election.