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| Reluctant Hero |
SNP lose council by-election and DRS in troublehttp://www.theherald.co.uk/news/n...in_new_poll_shambles.php#commentsThe SNP lose a council seat, halting their recent successes. Plus the firm that was behind the Holyrood fiasco, had another less than successful night. |
| William_Cleland |
Key snippet:-
Labour's Richard Tullett gained the seat despite a 22.5% drop in his party's first count vote share - a perverse side-effect of the single transferable vote system introduced for Scottish council elections last year. |
| October1974 |
from a comment on the Herald site
'Labour 725 SNP 609 LDem 580 Ind Lab 509 Con 80 Unionists 38 SSP 32 Green 21 Most of the Independent Labour 2nd preferences appear to have gone to the Labour candidate, granting him victory over the SNP. However the final result of Labour 1094 to SNP 962' For Labout to lose 22% of the Ist preference votes would be very worrying for them The Libs did well but they have a history of electoral strength in the Cambuslang and Rutherglen areas. The SNP vote stayed steady and were already resigned to lose the seat as they were way behind in Ist preferences in May 2007. |