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Methodology & Sources

What this is

The final results of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election, polled on 7 May 2026. Two interactive maps — 73 constituencies and 8 regional lists — coloured by winning party, with full vote shares + per-region D'Hondt seat allocations on hover or click.

Editorial commentary on what the result means lives at nomandate.scot.

Where the numbers come from

Constituency winners + candidate vote shares + per-region party totals are scraped from the BBC's election results pages (bbc.co.uk/news/election/2026/scotland/) and reconciled against ONS area codes. Per-region seat counts are recorded as published by the Scottish Parliament; the per-region D'Hondt allocation is shown in the panel below each region map.

The full data snapshot used by this site lives baked into the build as a single JSON file — there are no live API calls. Election is over; the result doesn't change.

A note on history

Through the 2026 campaign SeatWatch published a weekly seat-projection model based on national + regional polls, applied via proportional swing onto 2026 boundaries with D'Hondt allocation. The pre-election projection (final run dated 2026-05-06) called SNP 65, Labour 18, Reform UK 18, Green 13, Lib Dem 8, Conservative 7.

The actual result was SNP 58, Labour 17, Reform UK 17, Green 15, Conservative 12, Lib Dem 10. The model over-estimated the SNP by 7 seats and under-estimated Conservative + Lib Dem by 7 between them.

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