Scottish Parliament Election: 7 May 2026

[Malcolm]

9 hours ago, scotlad said:

He supports the other side of that wee rivalry, or claims to. Actually most Asians in Glasgow I know tend to favour Rangers, which makes sense when you consider how many settled in the south side. It might also explain Sarwar's fondness for those bogging broon shoes he's always wearing.

Either way, that statement is a riddy, even by his standards!

ha ha, yeah, such a politicians answer.  Betraying your beliefs and trying to keep everyone onside to vote for you in one answer.

[Hertsscot]

Just checking in for the morning and all I can see already is SLab adverts. They must have spent a fortune on social media - I dare say most of the money came up from England 

[Saint4805]

I still can't get my head around the fact that so many fellow Scots are willing to vote for a party led by Nigel f'ing Farage. A party that will serve Trump, Putin and the tax dodging overseas based billionaires who fund them. A party that is riddled with unvetted candidates with far right / racist views some of whom think there are too many black and brown people on TV. I get that we are in a protest vote era and many people have had enough of Labour and the SNP but feck me. 

Edited Thursday at 06:55 AM by Saint4805

[AlfieMoon]

Aye, the amount of pro-Union party advertising through online platforms has been incredible.
 

The newspaper front pages are pretty ridiculous but nobody is really reading them any more.
 

I would guess SNP 59 +/- 2.  A majority was never a real prospect in my opinion but the possibility was put there to build the outcome of not getting one to being a failure. As for other parties - who knows what we’ll end up with. It’s literally all over the place in every poll.  

[exile]

Hard to judge when you never know the impact of tactical voting. Some saying Jackie Baillie in danger but wasn't she saved by unionist tactical voting last time?

I'm not sure how far the models take that into account, as if that happens the SNP would be reliant on their list vote as an insurance policy.

[Hertsscot]

11 minutes ago, AlfieMoon said:

The newspaper front pages are pretty ridiculous but nobody is really reading them any more.

I still think they're influential. I see lots of people, particularly elder ones, scanning the headlines and (presumably) taking them as Gospel truth 

The Express was funny yesterday, promoting Russell Findlay, leader of a party who'll do well if they finish fifth. 

[hampden_loon2878]

I am going

 

SNP 54 seats

reform 24

labour 16

Green 14

tories 11

indy 1

Libs 9

 

completly against the polling and have no idea how I have came to the conclusion but that’s my prediction for today 

 

Edited Thursday at 07:41 AM by hampden_loon2878

[exile]

18 minutes ago, hampden_loon2878 said:

I am going

 

SNP 54 seats

reform 24

labour 16

Green 14

tories 11

indy 1

Libs 9

 

completly against the polling and have no idea how I have came to the conclusion but that’s my prediction for today 

 

Do you predict a particular indy?

[Toepoke]

1 hour ago, Saint4805 said:

I still can't get my head around the fact that so many fellow Scots are willing to vote for a party led by Nigel f'ing Farage. A party that will serve Trump, Putin and the tax dodging overseas based billionaires who fund them. A party that is riddled with unvetted candidates with far right / racist views some of whom think there are too many black and brown people on TV. I get that we are in a protest vote era and many people have had enough of Labour and the SNP but feck me. 

It beggars belief, especially anyone who favours independence / is on benefits/ keeps poor health. But they will take a lot of votes from people like that.

Face eating leopards spring to mind.

 

[hampden_loon2878]

47 minutes ago, exile said:

Do you predict a particular indy?

Fergus however I do think my heart is leading my brain there, I think the vote will be split and libs may sneak in there 

[slasher]

I used to get mildly excited about elections but not any more. All that’s gonna happen here is that the SNP will win, ask for another section 30, Westminster will say no and round and round we go. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[King Of Paisley]

45 minutes ago, Toepoke said:

It beggars belief, especially anyone who favours independence / is on benefits/ keeps poor health. But they will take a lot of votes from people like that.

Face eating leopards spring to mind.

 

My two grandfathers fought in WW 2 to keep politics like that away from this country

Any Scot voting for that frog faced cunt and his branch manager Offord are spitting on their memories and countless others as far as I'm concerned.

[Ally Bongo]

8 minutes ago, slasher said:

I used to get mildly excited about elections but not any more. All that’s gonna happen here is that the SNP will win, ask for another section 30, Westminster will say no and round and round we go. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Ive got the fear that they wont 

I don't buy into the "SNP need a spell in opposition" 

[AlfieMoon]

12 minutes ago, slasher said:

I used to get mildly excited about elections but not any more. All that’s gonna happen here is that the SNP will win, ask for another section 30, Westminster will say no and round and round we go. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I’m the same.  I’ve just wanted it over as quickly as possible.  The campaigns bring nothing new and just bring increased coverage to all the arseholes. 
 

If the SNP don’t get a majority this time I think they seriously need to think about not standing on the regions next time and bring together a formal ‘Yes’ party. That would be wholly dependent on SNP still being in a dominant position on the constituency vote though which can’t be taken for granted. 

Edited Thursday at 09:02 AM by AlfieMoon

[phart]

Just back from voting. Seemed pretty busy, however nothing to base that off. Steady stream of folk. 

Heading back down later to vote again then will probably go just before shutting time.

[Saint4805]

1 hour ago, Toepoke said:

It beggars belief, especially anyone who favours independence / is on benefits/ keeps poor health. But they will take a lot of votes from people like that.

Face eating leopards spring to mind.

 

The folk you mentioned will be the first to complain about "feeling left behind" and they'll also be wondering why public services are in the toilet after Farage has been in Downing Street for a few months after the next GE.

Edited Thursday at 09:36 AM by Saint4805

[scotlad]

9 hours ago, King Of Paisley said:

Will be amazed if its anything other than an SNP victory tomorrow. All depends on the number of seats. Some polls saying 57, some saying an outright majority.

Come.10pm tomorrow, are there any exit polls? Don't recall any in past elections

 

 

Now I think about it, neither can I. 🤔

I suspect the SNP will still win the most seats but by what margin I am not sure. Considering how much shite they have had to deal with - some of it self-inflicted, some of it not, and some of it completely contrived - anything over 50 seats would be a very good outcome indeed. Anything more than that would be remarkable. 

My concern is Labour getting close enough to cobble together a kind of pact with some of the other unionist parties to vote in that oaf Sarwar as FM - despite Labour being closer to the SNP in terms of actual policies (with one obvious exception). To my mind that is beyond the realms of possibility, unfortunately.

[ThistleWhistle]

Labour were all over my YouTube to the point it pissed me off so much I’ve actually started paying for it!

Barely got anything last time in Angus South but getting bombarded this time as it’s a new SNP candidate.  Suspect they’ll hold relatively comfortably as Reform will take votes off both them and the Tories.  

[Orraloon]

2 hours ago, phart said:

Just back from voting. Seemed pretty busy, however nothing to base that off. Steady stream of folk. 

Heading back down later to vote again then will probably go just before shutting time.

Vote early, vote often. 👍

[Orraloon]

11 hours ago, King Of Paisley said:

 

Come.10pm tomorrow, are there any exit polls? Don't recall any in past elections

 

 

I don't think any polling company is planning to do an exit poll. Probably because nobody was willing to pay for one?

[DoonTheSlope]

2 hours ago, phart said:

Just back from voting. Seemed pretty busy, however nothing to base that off. Steady stream of folk. 

Heading back down later to vote again then will probably go just before shutting time.

Sounds like early promise for the SNP, Greens and to a lesser extent Labour who will be making an early surge thanks to their everything for nothing policies enticing those who are not working and on benefits to the polls 👍🏻 

[TDYER63]

Just back from voting , polling station is right next door. Seems fairly busy for a normally quiet part of the day. There was a Reform sandwich board outside, someone has written ‘Racists ‘ across it. Thats possibly the most militant event to ever take place in this Tory village. 

[Orraloon]

24 minutes ago, TDYER63 said:

Just back from voting , polling station is right next door. Seems fairly busy for a normally quiet part of the day. There was a Reform sandwich board outside, someone has written ‘Racists ‘ across it. Thats possibly the most militant event to ever take place in this Tory village. 

What colour maker pen did you use?

[DoonTheSlope]

43 minutes ago, TDYER63 said:

Just back from voting , polling station is right next door. Seems fairly busy for a normally quiet part of the day. There was a Reform sandwich board outside, someone has written ‘Racists ‘ across it. Thats possibly the most militant event to ever take place in this Tory village. 

It’s almost as though people don’t know what ‘racist’ means anymore. It’s now a hollow word without any real substance to it. To the dismay of those who actually do suffer from racism 

[phart]

1 hour ago, DoonTheSlope said:

Sounds like early promise for the SNP, Greens and to a lesser extent Labour who will be making an early surge thanks to their everything for nothing policies enticing those who are not working and on benefits to the polls 👍🏻 

I was going to add seemed mostly retired folk so maybe 10am a normal time for them to get up and vote before heading off for brunch. Since I'm a resident of the best place to live in Scotland. I of course was up at 10am because that's when I can be sold alcohol and my giro has just came in.