Other fun fact about Ade is that he is the first Black Councillor ever elected in the history Of Glasgow City Council. A fact that I feel should have been a much bigger deal than it ended up being in hindsight.

Just as a heads-up, I think the List Result Graphic has a decimal error that shows up in an interesting way.

Except there are, for example, multiple parties registered with Reform in their name with the EC. Because those are long term existing registrations. As is the IGV.

The challenge with all of this is that from a legal standpoint, the IGV hasn't done anything to warrant deregistration.

... I think you need to lay off the cheese at night.

I get why Greens especially find the talk irritating since it implies that they don't have a base vote of their own, which they absolutely do by any measure.
But this thinking does happen in the minority, & it could be useful to poll exactly how big that group is just to shut the discourse up a bit.

It is probably best to look at how Canada handles Kim Campbell as guidance on this in the long run. As while the reasons are different they are both in the same vein of 'Yes they were technically Prime Minister'.

Honestly, I think a few of those were reform voters that we flipped during the campaign. The reform vote is often people frustrated and angry with the way things are, so you can talk them around to sort of vote 'f the lot of yous' and I suspect we got a decent amount of that.

I would say, and this is mostly from what I saw at the count, is that a lot of voters just put the X next to the box of the candidate they liked and left it there. I would speculate that was around 20% of all ballots, especially when it came to Labour voters.

It makes you look for savings in all the wrong places because departments are compelled to cut what they can, with limited time to understand the potential trade-offs. And deepens the impression that the government can’t commit to seeing through long-term projects.