Scotland 2007; results thread

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Will be open soon!

Please do not post results & etc for the Welsh Assembly or English council elections here.

This is the place to post Scottish council election results though (in addition to the Scottish Parliament).

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Polls have closed.

And I have A Bad Feeling about this election.

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Apparently some seat projection sez SNP 45, Lab 41.

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McConnell holds Motherwell & Wishaw: majority of 22%, swing of just under 7%.

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Labour hold Kelvin apparently

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LAB HOLD Cumbernauld

Come again?

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BBC reports that Salmond has won Gordon

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Using Al's colouring, there are lots of 'pink' Labour seats...but they are still Labour Big swings against them, 12% for example in East Lothian, where they can afford to loose votes.

Whoever ran the Labour campaign at that sort of level, even if Labour loses, deserves a medal...

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SNP GAIN STIRLING!?!

This election is official insane

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SNP win Govan...finally.

Aw... does this mean that Labour's Worst Candidate Ever didn't fluke a win this time?

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SNP win Govan...finally.

Aw... does this mean that Labour's Worst Candidate Ever didn't fluke a win this time?

Thankfully not. Nor did he go on holiday

Haha. The man is an embarassment to the Labour Party and should have been deselected then expelled years ago...

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Results in the Hamilton North & East ward of South Lanarkshire...

Elected: Barry Douglas (SNP), David McLachlan (Lab), Mary Smith (Lab)

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Results in the Hamilton North & East ward of South Lanarkshire...

Elected: Barry Douglas (SNP), David McLachlan (Lab), Mary Smith (Lab)

Was this the election our favorite tory was running in?

Yep

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That's rather a surprise.

Not compared to this; Labour hold Linlithgow

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A map should be up soon

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Labour have no respect for the democratic system anyway from postal votes to dodgy machines.

I could quite happily dig up plent of evidence to "prove" that your party also has no respect for the democratic system either.

I could also, for example, claim that as Gwynedd County Council is run in very authoritarian way, discriminates against non-Welsh speakers and is probably very corrupt, all members of Plaid Cymru are corrupt, hate people who can't speak Welsh and have an authoritarian strike about a mile wide.

But what's the point exactly?

Besides it would also be quite hypocritical; for one thing, one of Labour's new AM's used to be a member (more than that; he was once their chairman!) of Plaid. And I also know several Plaid members, more Plaid members and find them to be, on the whole and with a few exceptions, decent people.

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Yeah, I'm not happy with the way that certain comrades (I think with new leadership beckoning, 'tis time to revert to more traditional language...) north of the border have acted either*. Just try not to go over the top, that's all

*As it happens I think that a more positive campaign would have likely have saved one or two more vulnerable constituency seats. But that's not the only reason why I don't like it. I've always thought that part of the point of having a Labour Party was to set an example, and I don't like it when some within it don't.

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So if the election turned out as badly for Scottish Labour as it was looking until the last few days, they might as well have changed their name to the Bloc Glasgow?

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Dunfermline East was also..strange. It was jokingly said that the Lib Dems may take it, but my jaw dropped when it did.

You mean Dunfermline West, right?

The odd thing is that they wouldn't have taken it on the Westminster boundaries; have a look at the local results in Fife: http://www.fife.gov.uk/topics/index.cfm?fuseaction=subject.display&subjectid=75FF1F89-38B3-4136-B0449D1529C55B51

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Do you still have that central-Scotland-wide map of the new wards?

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Remind me again what the snaky seat to the north of the Falkirks and Dunfermlines is. Ochil?

Yeah; SNP nearly lost it, despite winning it in 2003.

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LibDems have ruled out a coalition with the SNP.

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Now things will get interesting. Tavish Scott ruled out a coalition with Labour yesterday, I believe.

Yep. And some people in the Welsh LibDems are making similar "no coalition" noises.

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Note that there's no majority for Independence in the Scottish Parliament, even after these elections (besides I think that, technically, most of the SNP's gains came at the expense of more left-leaning pro-Independence parties? So perhaps more a shift to the right amongt Nationalist types, rather than a shift to Nationalism?)

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The constituency was only created in '83. Before then you had a Banffshire constituency and an Aberdeenshire East constituency.