Scottish Elections Tracker – 11 February

Third in a polling series with The Scotsman, exploring Scottish political attitudes ahead of the Holyrood elections in May 2021.

It has been brought to our attention that there was a weighting error in the first three of our Scottish voting intention polls for the Scotsman, that were published in December, January and February respectively. Subsequent polls in March and April did not suffer from the same error.

 

Instead of weighting by likelihood to vote at the correct step, the step was missed which meant that weighting was in fact turned off for our independence and Holyrood voting intentions. The tables have been corrected and the updated figures are summarised below.

 

We would like to apologise for the error, and thank the BPC for their co-operation and patience while it was fixed.

 

February

 

Indy Ref

Yes 49%

No 51%

 

Constituency VI

SNP 50%

Conservative 23%

Labour 19%

Liberal Democrats 6%

Other 2%

 

List VI

SNP 39%

Labour 21%

Conservative 21%

Liberal Democrats 8%

Green 9%

Other 2%

Date Published: 11/02/2021

Categories: Politics | Voting Intention

Methodology

Savanta ComRes interviewed 1,002 Scottish adults online from the 4 to 9 February 2021. Data were weighted to be demographically representative of all Scottish adults by age, sex, region and past voting behaviour. Savanta ComRes is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.

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