Talk:Next Scottish Parliament election

ComesRes 3–9 Sep 2021
I'm not experienced at reading poll data but what is currently posted for these dates might be wrong. Going via the pdf on https://comresglobal.com/polls/scottish-political-tracker-september-2021/ it seems to indicate for the totals - SNP 32%, Cons 20%, Lab 17%, Greens 12%, Lib Dems 6%, Alba 2%, Others 1%. Yet what is currently posted for this poll is - SNP 36%, Cons 23%, Lab 18%, Greens 13%, Lib Dems 7%, Alba 0%, Others 3%. Have I made a mistake/reading the figures incorrectly or is what is currently posted in the article wrong for this poll?

It also says in the following ComesRes poll for October that Alba "is down one point to 1 per cent of the vote" indicating their voting percentage was higher in the prior poll, which would correspond to the figures I have given rather than what is currently stated on the Wikipedia page. Helper201 (talk) 18:17, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I am not generally involved in opinion polling tables, but I would suspect it has been recalculated to remove the don't knows (I just did that, and got the same results, apart from Alba (who should be on 2%) and others should be 1%. Number   5  7  20:41, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Vote of no-confidence vote
It's planned for next Wednesday - 1st May 2024. Following is from the disagreement of disullion of the Bute house agreement Thursday 25th April 2024 Crazyseiko (talk) 17:12, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g8dwn01gno
 * https://news.stv.tv/politics/humza-yousafs-fate-hangs-on-single-msp-as-scottish-greens-will-vote-to-oust-first-minister
 * https://www.ft.com/content/483d83e4-ba91-4e33-af21-78b4e588186a
 * If there is something here that might belong in the article then either add it or discuss it. Otherwise this is WP:NOTAFORUM. Meters (talk) 05:52, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Opinion polling graph
Why is there a dashed line marking 5% on the regional polling graph under "opinion polling"? In some systems (e.g. Germany) there's a minimum threshold for seats, but not in Scotland. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.17.140 (talk) 15:19, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Infobox: Formatting/image
I think that map for the Scottish election shouldn't be in the infobox - it's so big that it squeezes the text to the left of the box badly, but it's also not big enough to easily resolve all the visual details.

Maybe we can have the map somewhere lower down, where it has space to breathe, and a more generic photo in the infobox (basic map of Scotland? Photo of Holyrood?) Oolong (talk) 17:28, 7 July 2024 (UTC)


 * @Talleyrand6 I wonder if you'd be up for producing a more minimal version of this to fit better in the infobox? Otherwise I can try.
 * Thanks! Oolong (talk) 14:22, 16 July 2024 (UTC)