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Jul 10, 2020 • 40 tweets • 12 min read
“Playing with fire - or trying to game the list vote in #Holyrood2021 election.”
There’s been increasing discussion about how to maximise the number of seats for pro-indy parties in next year’s election, with at least one ‘list party’ having already been set up 1/
The rationale is the SNP will pick up very few seats in the regional lists, because it will excel in constituency results (a consequence of d’Hondt AMS).
(Recent polling suggests the SNP will achieve another overall majority, so the below discussion may be largely academic.) 2/
