Scotland 2011 - Results Thread

[minionofmidas]

WTF is going on with the SNP gaining all of these seats?

Lib Dem vote appears to have collapsed...for what reason I'm sure you can speculate...but it seems that vote has moved to the SNP for the most part.

Simple really.
Leftish LD voters voted LD rather than Labour for a reason. Now they can't vote LD anymore, in Scotland there was another party available to drift to. In England (and even Wales, Plaid being out for many anglophones) there was only one place to go.

Besides, the SNP has governed well, and Labour didn't exactly provide many positive reasons to vote for them.

[minionofmidas]

I have an issue with this set of figures...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/election2011/region/html/36139.stm

either the vote totals are wrong, or the seat distribution is. SNP should have one more list seat, Labour one fewer.

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, that slight swing is just about what it takes to flip the last seat to Labour.

[minionofmidas]

Kind of odd list of Labour seats... some of it is core heartland, but some that you'd call core heartland is gone, and meanwhile they still hold Dumbarton, Eastwood, and half of Dumfries - two of these because the race was seen as Labour vs Tory, with the SNP having no chance. Dumbarton is more mysterious - personal vote?

[minionofmidas]

SNP got their majority just now, gaining Kirkcaldy.

Yeah, that officially confirmed it. Not that it was in serious doubt before, of course.

[minionofmidas]

You can always unite with the Crown Dependencies.

[minionofmidas]

Highland & Island in, Highland LD's ought to perhaps lobby for an end to Orkney and Shetland overrepresentation. (The direct seats there mean no regional seat for them. Not even close, either. Greens came fairly close to nicking a gain, though.)

[minionofmidas]

And it's all in.

Party    SNP    +/-    Lab    +/-    Con    +/-    LD    +/-    Others    +/-
Total    69    +23    37    -7    15    -5    5    -12    3    +1

(Others being 2 Greens and Margo McDonald).

Constituencies scoreboard
Party    Seats    +/-    Votes    %    +/-%
SNP    53    +32    902,915    45.4    +12.5
Labour    15    -20    630,461    31.7    -0.5
Conservative    3    -3    276,652    13.9    -2.7
Liberal Democrat    2    -9    157,714    7.9    -8.2
Others    0    0    21,480    1.1    -1.1

Regions scoreboard
Party    Seats    +/-    Votes    %    +/-%
Labour    22    +13    513,058    26.1    -3
SNP    16    -9    865,834    44.1    +13.1
Conservative    12    -2    244,160    12.4    -1.5
Others    3    +1    238,139    12.1    -2.5
Liberal Democrat    3    -3    102,657    5.2    -6.1
Turnout    1,963,848    49.3    -2

Greens are at 4.4%. Disappointing. I really thought they could outpoll the LDs on the list.

[minionofmidas]

A lot of SNP voters would vote against. Then again, some people who don't vote for the SNP would vote for... but seeing as the SNP didn't actually win a majority of the vote... it probably would fail. Anyways, declaring independence on 51% of the vote is a bad idea anyways.

[minionofmidas]

The website error consists of "Independent - MacDonald" not being listed. Margo MacDonald was reelected as independent list MLA from Lothian.