Chip ButtyDr Manivannan represents the kind of Scotland I want to live in. Inclusive, diverse, welcoming, fair, and green.
Simon Brooke@radiojammor Yes, this is pretty much what I was suspecting. The #SNP's crazy, selfish, tribal, unpatriotic #BothVotesSNP was really a dagger to the heart of the #ScottishIndependence movement.
They sabotaged #IndyRef2 with 'only SNP votes count to a mandate', and they sabotaged a potentially overwhelming pro-indy majority with 'both votes SNP'.
Tribal politician are the curse of Scotland.
Interesting side note on this question: the percentage difference between list and constituency votes, be party, was as follows:
SNP: 28.63%
Labour: 17.32%
#ReformUKLtd: 5.92%
#Tories: 0.007% <<<<< tribal or what?!?
#LibDems: 17.28%
#Green: -512.9%
I'd always had Labour down as the most tribal party in Scotland, but look at those Tories go!
It's worth pointing out that Angus Robertson did not come second behind Lorna Slater, but third, so if @ScottishGreens had not stood in Edinburgh Central, he might still not have won, and indeed #ScottishLabour might have got it.
Right, so, hypothetically, supposing that @ScottishGreens had stood candidates in all constituencies, and supposing that all those quarter million people had voted #Green on the constituency vote, the #SNP would have LOST 17 constituencies as compared to their actual score, and the Greens would have won only 2 additional constituencies -- a net loss on the constituencies of 15 seats for #ScottishIndependence.
/Continued
@nusher @ScottishGreens Yes, it could. Or several other things. But I'm looking at the roughly quarter of a million voters who voted Green on the list but not the constituency, and the roughly quarter of a million who voted #SNP on the constituency but not on the list, and wondering whether those are the same people.
And, if they are the same people, how many of them would have voted #Green on the constituency if they could have.
I'm currently doing a hypothetical....
The @ScottishGreens received 269,436 FEWER votes on the constituency ballot than they did on the list; the SNP received 251,128 MORE. So that's probably something fairly close to quarter of a million votes -- or 28% of the SNP's total vote -- that #Greens voters lent to the SNP on the constituency.
To my surprise, there were a total of 6,353 MORE list votes, across the whole of #Scotland, than constituency votes: that is, someone who DID vote on the list who DID NOT vote on the constituency ballot.
I'm going to guess that those were probably mainly @ScottishGreens voters who could not bring themselves to vote #SNP
Right, I've put a spreadsheet of #Holyrood election data up here that I've reverse engineered from Wikipedia data. It's not perfect but at least it does give numbers to do some analysis from. Feel free to use it in any way you like; but if anyone has a better spreadsheet, I would be really grateful.
https://www.journeyman.cc/~simon/tmp/holyrood_election_2026_wikipedia.ods
Colin H.