Result

Inter­est­ing results last night: Labour losses, Lib Dem losses, SNP losses and Tory stasis put the focus on inde­pen­dent and small party suc­cess. I take this as a sign that people are get­ting more com­fort­able with the second vote, which gave the SSP a fan­tas­tic result - five six MSPs, all via the party list, putting them in a posi­tion to exert real influence.

My con­stituency, Glas­gow Kelvin, reflected the trends across Scotland:

The turnout was typ­i­cally weak, too: 35.9% of the elec­torate, down 10.5% from last time.

Posted at 11am on 02/05/03 by Jack Mottram to the politics category.
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