Scottish parliamentary election results so far

[vivdunstan]

Pleased to see SNP win our constituency Angus South. And also pleased to see Greens win a couple of constituency seats in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Our SNP MP Stephen Gethins has been newly elected as the MSP for Dundee East, so we will have a Westminster by election upcoming in our seat. But that's ok. Also happy that the Liberals continue their long-time history with Fife North East. Will be interested to see how the regional vote plays out. I voted Green for the regional list.

Comments

[greenwoodside]

Congratulations! Scotland seems increasingly like a northerly paradise for its comparative lack of interest in Reform.

[a_cubed]

Think again. Reform are the joint second largest party in the SP now, albeit with few constituency seats but a lot of regional list seats. While the Tories lost 19 and RefUK gained 17, so it's a slight net loss for the RWNJs, it's disheartening to see so many people willing to vote for RefUK PLC, an explicitly racist, and codedly fascist, party.

[greenwoodside]

It's grim, but still so much better than in Wales.

In Scotland the SNP have 58 seats with Labour and Reform tied at 17, and other parties not far behind. 16% of the vote share.

In Wales thankfully Plaid are the largest party with 43 seats. But Reform are at 34, and then there's a huge drop before Labour with 9 seats. Reform got a blood-curdling 29% of the vote share.

[vivdunstan]

Reform didn't win a single constituency seat in Scotland, using the first past the post vote system that saw them gain a vast number of English local councillors.

They only won seats on the Scottish regional list vote, which is proportional yes, but designed in a way to balance out the constituency vote. So it isn't a straight proportional representation on its own, and analysing it is rather complicated.

I'm only briefly awake so not able right now to check this, but I think it would be interesting to compare the Scottish Reform vote shares between constituency and regional votes. And then also compare that against the English FPTP Reform vote share.