Moray By-election (Holyrood)

[Harry Hayfield]

DECLARATION:

Mr. Richard Neilson Lochhead, SNP    12653   46.14%
Mrs. Mary Scanlon, Con     6268   22.85%
Mrs. Linda June Gorn, LDm     5310   19.36%
Mr. Alexander Keith, Lab     2696    9.83%
Mr. Melville Brown, LocHosp      493    1.79%
Total    27420   45.05%
SNP Majority      6385    23.29%
SNP Hold

[afleitch]

DECLARATION:

Mr. Richard Neilson Lochhead, SNP    12653   46.14%
Mrs. Mary Scanlon, Con     6268   22.85%
Mrs. Linda June Gorn, LDm     5310   19.36%
Mr. Alexander Keith, Lab     2696    9.83%
Mr. Melville Brown, LocHosp      493    1.79%
Total    27420   45.05%
SNP Majority      6385    23.29%
SNP Hold

SNP UP 3.95
CON UP 0.35
LIB UP 7.19
LAB DOWN 9.28

[Voice from the South West]

DECLARATION:

Mr. Richard Neilson Lochhead, SNP    12653   46.14%
Mrs. Mary Scanlon, Con     6268   22.85%
Mrs. Linda June Gorn, LDm     5310   19.36%
Mr. Alexander Keith, Lab     2696    9.83%
Mr. Melville Brown, LocHosp      493    1.79%
Total    27420   45.05%
SNP Majority      6385    23.29%
SNP Hold

SNP UP 3.95
CON UP 0.35
LIB UP 7.19
LAB DOWN 9.28

Well could be better, could be worse. I should not have believed so easily some of those "sources" on PB.com. Usually I don't fall for the over-optimistic Lib Dem crap but after more or less dismissing them over their Dunfermline predictions, and being proved spectacularly wrong, I was more inclined to believe that we could have come third, especially after that ridiculous letter cock-up. Anyway the moral of the story is: don't trust anyone when it comes to predicting by-elections on the basis of what a "source" has been telling them.

[afleitch]

Apparently Labours skin was marginally saved by postal votes sent before the recent debacle. Without them Labour 'probably closer to 6%' allegedly

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Not suprised. Result would likely have been more interesting if those nasty campaign stuff hadn't happend.

[minionofmidas]

Not suprised. Result would likely have been more interesting if those nasty campaign stuff hadn't happend.

And Labour's deposit quite possibly gone. (Hey - that sort of fighting must have deterred some Labourites from contemplating a tactical vote.)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And Labour's deposit quite possibly gone.

As is the tradition in Moray

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Probably, although quite a few did anyway but the looks of it. To no avail o/c.