Talk:Polling in Scotland for Next UK General Election

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Political Activism

This page appears to be a form of political activism in favour of Scottish nationalism and indeed the SNP.

There’s no actual need for it - there are whole pages dedicated to opinion polling for Scottish parliament elections and Scottish independence.

There is even a subsection for Scotland in the UK articles, which is right and proper.

This desire for a new article is completely without merit, as is the addition of an SNP column to the UK wide polling page.

We need to root out this pro SNP activism. It should have no place on Wikipedia

92.20.135.189 (talk) 20:05, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article clearly demonstrates why there is a need for such an article. The political dynamics in Scotland are very different to those within the rest of the UK as can be clearly seen by the Voting Intentions, this is further reinforced by the target seats data. Having partial information buried deep in a huge article does not provide the profile that this should be receiving. As you correctly point out there are articles about Independence polling and polling for the Scottish election so why would there not be similar for this particular election? Pugpa2 (talk) 09:30, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of Sub-samples

I think it is useful to have this article, so thanks to User:Pugpa2 for creating it - there is easily sufficient Scotland-only polling to justify it, adn the main UK article has become very large already, with the next election potentially still 4 years away. However I'm more than a bit uneasy about including the sub-sample data, as this smacks of Original Research, and is also potentially misleading. It's not simply a matter of sample size: sub-samples may not be correctly weighted for demographics etc. Grinner (talk) 09:25, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that, I thought long and hard before including the subsets, what tipped my thinking was that every pollster listed accounts for a Scottish subset (so not convinced about original research) however I do take your point about being weighting and note that some of the subsets are only about 5% of UK total. I had thought about including two columns to show size of UK set and % of that which is Scottish subset as an indicator, but felt it might become a bit cumbersome. Pugpa2 (talk) 10:58, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]