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Friday May 06, 2005 18:11

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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?

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Comments (16 of 16)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	No alternative to Labour on the fringes	Archivist	Fri May 06, 2005 18:41
2	Don't be so hasty	Slow down	Fri May 06, 2005 18:58
3	Jumping to conclusions	Wallace	Fri May 06, 2005 20:07
4	CWI Results in Scotland	CWI	Fri May 06, 2005 21:28
5	Initial SSP Reaction to Westminster Electon Results	John Meehan	Sat May 07, 2005 01:05
6	other press links on SSP	weegies	Sat May 07, 2005 09:44
7	Fantasy politics over?	Archivist	Sat May 07, 2005 15:45
8	Illinformed	Wallace	Sat May 07, 2005 16:55
9	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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