Scottish Parliament Election, 6th May 2021

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Lib Dems hold Shetland on a 19 point swing to the SNP.

And then on the other side of the coin Rennie won East Fife with a large personal vote that consolidated the unionist behind him.

Wow, Methil is not a place you'd expect the lib dems to do well in.

As a North East Fife voter, I have to tell you that Methil is actually just over the constituency border in the Kirkcaldy constituency.

If Methil was in the seat, we'd be as safe SNP as Glasgow Kelvin.

It's the university voters in St Andrews, and the memory of Menzies Campbell in the more prosperous fishing villages of the East Neuk that generally keep the seat Lib Dem.

Willie Rennie has been a high-quality MSP over the last five years. He's turned up all over the place, and been good at replying to constituents. I even ran into him at a 50th birthday party of a local SNP activist (parent of a friend) - the man is just eager to engage with the community. (Whether that's political or genuine is immaterial if he's providing a decent public service0.

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Lib Dems hold Shetland on a 19 point swing to the SNP.

And then on the other side of the coin Rennie won East Fife with a large personal vote that consolidated the unionist behind him.

Wow, Methil is not a place you'd expect the lib dems to do well in.

As a North East Fife voter, I have to tell you that Methil is actually just over the constituency border in the Kirkcaldy constituency.

If Methil was in the seat, we'd be as safe SNP as Glasgow Kelvin.
 

I wonder how Sutherland voted - if it is SNP that means all the communities in Letter to America voted SNP (Lochaber, Sutherland, Lewis, Skye, Bathgate, Linwood, Methil, Irvine). I'd guess it likely did.

Sutherland is part of a marginal SNP-Lib Dem swing district (LibDem MP, and SNP MSP) so it could have gone either way...

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Lib Dems hold Shetland on a 19 point swing to the SNP.

And then on the other side of the coin Rennie won East Fife with a large personal vote that consolidated the unionist behind him.

Wow, Methil is not a place you'd expect the lib dems to do well in.

As a North East Fife voter, I have to tell you that Methil is actually just over the constituency border in the Kirkcaldy constituency.

If Methil was in the seat, we'd be as safe SNP as Glasgow Kelvin.
 

I wonder how Sutherland voted - if it is SNP that means all the communities in Letter to America voted SNP (Lochaber, Sutherland, Lewis, Skye, Bathgate, Linwood, Methil, Irvine). I'd guess it likely did.

Sutherland is part of a marginal SNP-Lib Dem swing district (LibDem MP, and SNP MSP) so it could have gone either way...

Yeah, my reasoning was that I seem to recall the Sutherland portion of the seat voted for Jamie Stone both times (though I'd have to check) so it could've been close with the SNP this time.

That tracks. How did you get regional data for the seat results? Would be genuinely curious. Are you going off of recent council election results, or was there county data reported?

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Lib Dems hold Shetland on a 19 point swing to the SNP.

And then on the other side of the coin Rennie won East Fife with a large personal vote that consolidated the unionist behind him.

Wow, Methil is not a place you'd expect the lib dems to do well in.

As a North East Fife voter, I have to tell you that Methil is actually just over the constituency border in the Kirkcaldy constituency.

If Methil was in the seat, we'd be as safe SNP as Glasgow Kelvin.

Its worth reading Oryxslayer's post very carefully, and then thinking about Methil's football team...

Ah. The East Fife team.

Apologies, my football knowledge is about as poor as my attempts to play the game. Even though they’re technically our local team, I’ve never heard them mentioned. At school, anyone one had an interest in the game was either bought into one of the Old Firm teams, or the Premier League.