Scottish General Election

[Differentforgirls]

Who are Scottish people voting for next month?

Of course the SNP vote is down, the number of voters is down full stop.

A third of Scottish Conservatives lost their deposit, I think that is much more telling.

And Reform didn't do as well here as they did in English council elections. It will be disappointing to have half of all First Minister's questions taken up by rants about immigration when it's a reserved matter, though.

As far as I know, JS intends to introduce a bill in Holyrood making the request for a Section 30 a formal Act of Parliament, so it doesn't matter where the pro-independence majority comes from as long as the bill passes.

I was surprised to see an interesting constitutional point raised on the BBC. Labour voted for the Brexit bill on the basis of the Brexit referendum being the will of the people. The Brexit referendum was a much smaller margin that the pro-indy vote has been, so is a larger mandate of the will of the people. I dont think there is a good answer to that.

The election actually had the second largest voter turn out in the history of the parliament.

The National said:

There were 3,784,094 registered voters in the 2026 Scottish elections.
The overall turnout was 53.2%.
This is down 10.1% from the 2021 elections

More concerned that SNP got 27.2% of the list vote and 1 list MSP. I really don't like deHondt.

I couldn't edit! Sorry.

It was obviously going to be down as 2021 was the highest ever turn out.

I do like DeHondt tbh, as when you look at the results at every election, it's %votes=%seats OVERALL.

I did think we'd get some seats on the list this year, but it wasn't to be.

I'd rather we won the most constituency seats. which we have.

Including Shetland which is a great win!

With reference to Reform UK.

Been doing some research today - BelTel, Guardian, YT, Google & AI.

Tice & Habib (Reform UK) have said, quote "Devoloution does not work at any level. It undermines the Union".

Since those comments, Reform has toned down the rhetoric to "reducing back-room bloat" including reducing the size & power of the devolved governments.

Many unionists will support this.

The toning down is because both the police & Civil Service have warned of "possible uncontainable & widespread civil disorder".

Now the unhappy bit - for me anyway as I'm Northern Irish - DUP voters in Belfast are indicating that they will now vote Reform UK. SF has said that they will "vigourously pursue & argue for a Border Poll". The past's shadows are re-emerging. Slowly, yes but they are there.

I think we can all now see what a Reform UK PM will mean.

The SNP and Greens are not single-issue parties - just because you voted for one of them doesn't mean you are necessarily pro-indy, and vice versa. You may have had other reasons for your vote.

Agree. Which is the same for every other party. All the Unionist parties have Yes groups.

Which is why we need an actual referendum to measure support for each side.

Don’t know why Unionist parties are against it. If they know they will win then they should be demanding one to put it to rest.

However, they aren’t. Which suggests they know they will lose.

Anyone else getting fed up with the Westminster-centric constitutional debate re Starmer: will he, won't he, who'll replace him debate?

Like there's nothing else to be getting on with, is there?

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Re the stramash going on down south, I note with interest Burnham's comments re Scottish Independence - and increased devolution generally including in the English counties.

Basically he "understands it better having been Mayor". (Paraphrase).