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Scottish elections and polling data. Not my polls. OG 'Britain Elects but Scottish'. PR fan account. Trans rights are human rights.

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Well yes but it's the vote til you boak comment I am replying to not the just enough one! Most other voters did in fact boak before they got to preferencing the top two.
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Well, not really, as I point out in the QT: this is easily the highest rate of non-transfers from the available pool of any recent by-election! More than two-thirds of voters didn't preference either of the top two.
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Transfer rounds - a somewhat infrequent by-election occurrence where these really, really mattered!

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Stranraer and the Rhins (Dumfries and Galloway) by-election transfers, votes at final stage:

Conservative: 1565 (39.7%)
Reform UK: 1523 (38.7%)
Didn't Transfer: 851 (21.6%)

No detailed data to follow as this was a hand count.
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Stranraer and the Rhins (Dumfries and Galloway) by-election transfers, votes at final stage:

Conservative: 1565 (39.7%)
Reform UK: 1523 (38.7%)
Didn't Transfer: 851 (21.6%)

No detailed data to follow as this was a hand count.
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
How many older journalists and papers look back at their role whipping up hatred against gay people like me in the 80's and 90's with pride and a sense they did right? Very few. So what do *you*, today's journos and papers, think your prospects are after re-running same campaign against trans folk?
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
You can do on same day (there was one in Stirling in 2021) for just a by-election but as the next full Locals are in 2027 this falls under the normal within 3 months rule and thus will have to be by this point in February!
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
No, it'll be Lib Dem.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I would just keep holding the whole thing up then rather than drive everyone up the wall, grumble
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Hi! Did you consider, at the same time, asking what their actual voting intention is? I ask because you do appear to recognise it's now less than 6 months until the election, and for the UK Parliament you have a weekly time series, so, surely, you might think some actual VI was useful? Right?
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Exit Polls are really, really complex, far beyond a normal poll, so short answer is no! It'd be good if the national broadcaster considered devolved elections worth the bother, but well beyond my capacity.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM