To ask how to vote?!

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I will definitely vote

My heart is with labour

I live in a lib dem area, with a close conservative second place. Labour probably doesnt have a chance here.

Do I vote Lib Dem, to stop the Tories taking the seat here?

Or do I vote labour?

Does a vote for labour help get them in power, or will it only matter if they get the seat here? In which case I should vote lib dem to keep the Tories out?

Thank you! I feel I should understand the system better

I have to do something I swore I never would, voting SNP. To try to keep Conservative out. If I voted Labour or Lib Dem it would just split the SNP vote and allow the Tory through. Not that we have candidates for those parties.

Hate that I have to do this as wee nippy will take it as a mandate for indyref2. SO looking forward to all that kicking off again 🙄🤨

So short answer is in your case I would vote Lib Dem.

There will be no Tory / LibDem coalition this time.

That's only good advice @tttigress if labour stand a chance. Otherwise you might as well just vote conservative and have done with it, because that's what labour votes will do in a Conservative /Lib dem seat.

There will be no Tory / LibDem coalition this time.
Exactly. The Torries and LDs are diametrically opposed on what is almost the single issue of UK politics.

We'll either see a Tory majority or a Lab, Lib and SNP arrangement. The OP will increase the odds of a Labour government if she votes LD.

The one and only time I voted Lib Dem was when they then went on to form a coalition with the Tories, that still haunts me now!!!! So even though I vowed to never vote Lib Dem’s again I would in your case!

Vote Labour!!

30not13 Not that we have candidates for those parties.

I think you might be mistaken - as far as I'm aware there's only one Scottish constituency which doesn't have a Labour candidate and they do have a Lib Dem.

I live in a constituency like yours and will be voting Labour. Admittedly I'm a member! But also a) another indy ref is almost as bad as a hard Tory brexit and gives a platform to people who think I shouldn't be living here, and b) Scottish politics is so up in the air anything could happen: I think a lot of people round here voted for Ruth Davidson's fluffy moderate Tories last time and that version of the party demonstrably doesn't exist any more. So it's not as straightforward as looking at the results from 2017 and extrapolating from that.

Ignore the national polls like some people are mentioning - you cannot affect what happens in neighbouring constituencies.

You need to thinks about what the most important issues to you personally are. You said you are 'labour at heart' but are you a brexiteer or remainer? That will be the main deciding factor.

Brexit - Tories
Remain - Labour

If the Libdems were more than a 10-20% behind last time, the chances of them getting in will be slim, so essentially a wasted vote unless a huge number of people do the same.

@Fixthebone - my above comment should say:

Remain - Libdem

You can only influence your constituency... as long as it's not a safe seat by xx,xxx votes

If the Lib Dems are the only realistic, viable way of preventing the Conservatives winning that constituency then for a Labour voter, it is worth a tactical vote as Labour have a minimal chance anyway.

Lib Dems and Conservatives won't form a coalition because of their opppsite stances on Brexit. In 2010, the Lib Dems did manage to influence some mellower compromises on Conservative policy, and the tone has been more right leaning since 2015.

If you aren't voting for your first choice party, you do need to find the party you are voting for tolerable, and for them to have a realistic chance of blocking a more strongly opposed party.