Scottish Elections who do you think will take the majority of Seats?

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As a Scot I genuinely have no idea who to vote for.

I dont trust the SNP and find John Swinney completely incompetent. I wouldnt trust him to run my household budget let alone the countries so he is out for me. I cant stand labour, the tories well are not my cup of tea, lib dems and green would never get my vote.

However i dont seem to be alone in having no idea who to vote for which leaves me wondering who will take the majority of seats across Scotland. What do others think will happen?

I'm also having a wry smile at Reform's success in terms of numbers voting for them. Successive attitude studies have shown that Scots and those who live here have a lot in common with people in the rest of the UK. We're not special or unique!

Edited to add - although there could be said that there's a certain specialness and uniqueness about repeatedly voting for the shower of fuckwits that are the SNP!

It was pretty obvious they'd get the most seats. Until a credible alternative materialises it won't change.

Students from the big captured uni.

Agree. Unfortunately the Greens don't need many seats. They will get to wield their lunacy via coalition with SNP, and Swinney will declare it a mandate for another referendum.

The SNP are not going to coalesce with the Greens again.

Says who? Honest John?

Pretty obvious to anyone who has been paying attention to Holyrood over the past two years.

Looks like my area has moved from Labour to SNP. Fuck.

Labour weren't doing a bad job here and schools were listening to the law at least. A new SNP council will turn all that around. Honesty so depressing. I suppose at least it's not reform or the greens...

I fucking despair!!!!!!!!!
All you who voted the SNP have let us and our children down. Yet again!!!!!!!!!
I'm so fucking angry today

Greens have also taken Glasgow southside.

SNP win in my constituency, with Green not that far behind. Other people either don't care about the things I care about, or don't know about them.

He can try - but yet again, the unionist parties' vote share looks very healthy. It just happens to be split.

Do you have you have council l elections too?

If the SNP don't get a majority then they will need the Greens - who will no doubt drive a hard bargain to get their anti-women and anti-business agenda through, no doubt involving free bikes for all and limits on washing with hot water, or whatever their latest wheeze is.

No, Labour, LibDem and Tories have let the electorate down by not providing what many think is a decent alternative.

Don't blame the electorate who have a crap choice to make right now because everyone's pretty dismal.

The SNP haven't had a majority for the past two years either and still had no issues governing as a minority. They are not about to enter into another formal coalition with the party they dumped in 2024, there is still too much enmity on both sides and too great divergence on areas like energy policy.

SNP will seek support as and when it's required, but that will not necessarily be exclusively Green.

And who else would provide that support? If they are pushing to get independence back on the table as they seem to want to do (god help us -Brexit on steroids) there's not many options for them.

How do people think Farage as Prime Minister would affect things? I've heard talk from SNP supporters that if Farage gets in Scotland will get independence.

Any party who has a vested interest in shaping policy. Lib Dems are the obvious candidate, but it's happened before with the Scots Tories lending support on a case-by-case basis before they lost the run of themselves and handed the keys to the swivel-eyed loon contingent. By the look of it they could end up with near single-digit MSPs, so of they want to be anything other than a total irrelevance given that Reform could well be the official opposition, they're going to have to look at areas where there might actually be some overlap with the SNP on policy.

Impossible to tell - it's all hypothetical at this stage. SNP supporters have made many claims about independence over the years, and the polls show things really haven't shifted. Remember also that Reform's vote share has increased right across Scotland, so it seems that many people are voting for them - they're not as unpopular as the SNP would like to think.

But not on independence.

I agree that there are occasions where they may turn to other parties, but my money is on a refreshed and reset relationship with the green clowns in the main - their views on many issues are more aligned.

Polling at the end of 2025 suggests that support for Indi rockets from it's current 50-53% to 61% assuming Farage is PM of a Reform Westminster government.

I don't think you can really read much into this right now because 1. A Reform UK government is still some way off, and 2. Going by 2014, polling pre-campaign doesn't really give an accurate indicator of what actual voting on the day will look like because the campaign itself clearly has a large influence on how people ultimately choose to vote.

Still, since 2011 when the Indi Ref was first mooted, the polling has steadily moved toward Indi, so that's now a long term trend and it doesn't appear to be about to reverse any time soon, and I have a hard time believing England's continued dalliance with Farage will do anything other than accelerate it.

So it’s been an interesting day, unsurprisingly SNP retained power but a few wee surprises along the way. I never blame the winners for winning unless by foul means which is not the case here, however I will make the exception to question who voted for the Greens, they are batshit!

Anyway, I hope that SNP take time to understand why people didn’t vote for them as in some places, there were more who didn’t vote for them than did but the against vote was split.

This is something I urge them to do, politicians failed to take note of why a lot of people wanted Brexit, not all were racists, which is an easy trope to fall back on, these people were not happy and they made their voices heard.

When I started voting, SNP were a fringe party, a bit of a joke, nothing to challenge the Labour stronghold in Scotland. Now Reform are the joke party and if we don’t listen to why people are voting for them then they could easily end up challenging the SNP stronghold and that is something to be truly concerned about.

Farage is widely expected to become Prime Minister in 2 years. Trump is US President. I no longer respect the democratic process.

If Farage becomes PM I’m leaving Britain.