Scottish Parliament election - 5th May 2016

[jaichind]

UKIP 38
Tories 23
Labour -9
LibDems -13
Greens -22
SNP -26

If I could vote I will still vote Tories.  In many ways I like UKIP over Tories but for tactical reasons getting Tories into second place over Labour would be great. 

[jaichind]

I assume BBC is covering this live at 5pm.  Will they come out with exit polls at 5pm for  Scottish Parliament (and I assume Welsh Parliament and London Mayor)?

[jaichind]

I assume BBC is covering this live at 5pm.  Will they come out with exit polls at 5pm for  Scottish Parliament (and I assume Welsh Parliament and London Mayor)?

It starts at 6:45PM Eastern time. No, there won't be any exit polls as such; they are only done for general elections nowadays. Sad as back in the day they were even done for by-elections.

Thanks.  Also when will results start tricking in ? I assume around 11pm?

[jaichind]

Edinburgh Southern 3 way Tory SNP Labour according to Sky. About the only constituency Labour can win in Scotland 

[jaichind]

Labour gain Edinburgh South from the SNP according to twitter

If so there must have been LD tactical voting for LAB.

[jaichind]

Things are looking pretty good for the CON to emerge as the second largest party over LAB.

[jaichind]

I assume the dynamic of the CON vote share will over perform LAB vote share on the list vote relative to the constituency vote is related to Scottish Green list vote will vote LAB in the constituency vote.   

[jaichind]

I find it interesting that in Edinburgh CON LAB and LD all managed to win 1 seat with all of them through anti-SNP tactical voting.  Very strategic voters that can correctly identify the largest opponent of SNP and vote correctly for three different parties to defeat SNP.