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SSP results

category cork | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Friday May 06, 2005 18:11author by jmj Report this post to the editors

The SSP's share of the vote in the British general election has fallen pretty much across the board. On average, SSP candidates got 2% of the vote, losing 1.2% of the overall vote.

Just looking at the BBC website coverage of the election, and it seems to me that the SSP have had a really bad result. Of the 58 constituencies they contested, they only increased their percentage of the vote in one (Orkney & Shetland Islands) and held their share of the vote in one (Berwickshire). In all of the remaining 56, their share of the vote was reduced.

On average, SSP candidates saw their share of the vote fall by 1.2% of the overall vote. When you consider that the SSP's average vote share across constituencies inthis election is marginally over 2%, the scale of the fall is clear. (By the way, my calculations have been done in my head, so if I' m a bit out, apologies).

In the SSP's main base, Glasgow, they averaged 4% per constituency, a drop of 3% of the overall vote - almost halving their vote share, consistent with the results in the rest of Scotland.

To be honest, I have not being keeping a close eye on the SSP, but I find these figures astonishing. At a time when the Blair government has been exposed in so many ways, with disaffection from them at an all-time high and with the Tories still reviled in Scotland, I would have expected the SSP to make significant gains. It seems to me from looking at the results that they were overtaken in severla areas by the Greens, but while there would certainly be an overlap between the support bases of these 2 groups, surely the SSP would have been expected to secure a lot of the anti-war, anti-capitalist vote?

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   No alternative to Labour on the fringes     Archivist    Fri May 06, 2005 18:41 
   Don't be so hasty     Slow down    Fri May 06, 2005 18:58 
   Jumping to conclusions     Wallace    Fri May 06, 2005 20:07 
   CWI Results in Scotland     CWI    Fri May 06, 2005 21:28 
   Initial SSP Reaction to Westminster Electon Results     John Meehan    Sat May 07, 2005 01:05 
   other press links on SSP     weegies    Sat May 07, 2005 09:44 
   Fantasy politics over?     Archivist    Sat May 07, 2005 15:45 
   Illinformed     Wallace    Sat May 07, 2005 16:55 
   What happened to Left in Northern elections?     Marty    Sat May 07, 2005 23:13 
 10   "Left" in North     deco    Sun May 08, 2005 17:40 
 11   derry     coba    Sun May 08, 2005 17:51 
 12   I asked this before and never got an answer     Mark P    Sun May 08, 2005 18:59 
 13   Sects or cults     archivist    Sun May 08, 2005 19:16 
 14   If having six members of the Scottish Parliament.....     Socialist    Sun May 08, 2005 19:56 
 15   SEA-men losers     deco    Tue May 10, 2005 00:13 
 16   An SSP response     Wallace    Tue May 10, 2005 01:12 


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