elections

It’s not the uniform swing, stupid!

30/10/2019 thomas 2 Comments

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

25/05/2019 thomas 0 Comments

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

18/05/201721/02/2020 thomas 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

04/07/201521/04/2017 thomas 7 Comments

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