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Brexit elections Indyref2 Labour LibDems SNP Tories 

It’s not the uniform swing, stupid!

30/10/2019 Tam 2 Comments

When I moved to Scotland almost twenty years ago and started watching election night programmes, I was surprised at first

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elections EU 

European democracy

25/05/2019 Tam 0 Comments

In the UK, the European Parliament elections have become a reenactment of the Brexit referendum, in Scotland it’s also about

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elections 

Mentally accepting proportional representation

18/05/201721/02/2020 Tam 2 Comments

I’ve seen quite a lot of people girning about elected representatives as if they weren’t properly elected if they didn’t

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elections 

Electoral systems compared

21/04/201724/01/2019 Tam 0 Comments

We use four different electoral systems in Scotland (FPTP, AMS, STV and d’Hondt), and a few years ago there was

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Denmark elections Holyrood 

The 2016 Holyrood election according to the Danish Electoral System

14/05/201624/01/2019 Tam 1 Comment

When people in Scotland discuss an alternative to the Additional Member System currently used for Holyrood elections, they often assume

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elections Holyrood 

Lots of voters don’t understand AMS

08/05/201621/04/2017 Tam 4 Comments

I just had a look at the number of constituency and list votes in each region, and I have to

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Denmark elections Westminster 

The Single Transferable Vote is the worst option for the SNP

04/07/201521/04/2017 Tam 8 Comments

Although the SNP benefitted hugely from First Past The Post (FPTP) in May (gaining almost all the Scottish seats on

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