In fact, in that election the SNP obtained a majority of seats on the basis of just over 45 per cent of votes cast in the first-past-the-post constituency elections and a slightly smaller proportion of the first preference ballots for regional “top-up” seats.
The fact that the combined vote of the unionist parties was greater in 2011 than that of the SNP is important.
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Hide AdIt is a reminder of the uphill struggle the SNP has to convince the Scottish people to vote for the political separation of Scotland from the rest of the UK in next year’s referendum.
Norman Bonney
Palmerston Place
Edinburgh