mruk research Opinion Poll

'An opinion poll for Channel 4 News makes bad reading for the Labour party north of the border today. Ahead of May's elections to the Scottish parliament, Labour has now fallen narrowly behind the Scottish Nationalists, threatening the Labour-Libdem administration of Jack McConnell'.
Gary Gibbon in Channel Four News, 9 th January 2007.

mruk research polls

Who would you vote for at the Scottish Parliamentary election?

Party		Labour	Scottish National Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrat	Scottish Green Party	Scottish Socialist Party
Date	Vote
6 th April 2007	Constituency	38 %	34 %	10 %	15 %	3 %
	Regional	37 %	35 %	10 %	14 %	3 %	1 %
	MSPs	55 (+ 5)	45 (+ 18)	10 (- 8)	18 (+ 1)	1 (- 6)	0 (- 10)
	1000 Scottish adults were surveyed by telephone between 22 nd and 27 th March 2007. Published 6 th April 2007
26 th April 2007	Constituency	34 %	38 %	11 %	13 %	4 %
	Regional	36 %	37 %	11 %	11 %	4 %	2 %
	MSPs	45 (- 5)	49 (+ 22)	14 (- 4)	19 (+ 2)	2 (- 5)	0 (- 10)
	1000 Scottish adults were surveyed by telephone between 13 th and 19 th April 2007. Published 26 th April 2007

North & North East Scotland poll

Who would you vote for at the Scottish Parliamentary election?

Party		Labour	Scottish National Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrat	Scottish Green Party	Scottish Socialist Party	Solidarity	Others
Date	Vote
16 th April 2007	Constituency	17 % (- 5 %)	44 % (+ 15 %)	12 % (- 5 %)	22 % (- 4 %)	-	2 % (+ 2 %)	-	-
	Regional	19 % (- 2 %)	45 % (+ 20 %)	12 % (- 5 %)	19 % (+ 0 %)	2 % (- 5 %)	2 % (- 3 %)	-	-
	1000 Scottish adults were surveyed by telephone between 22 nd and 27 th March 2007. Published 6 th April 2007

Local council, first preference

Party		Labour	Scottish National Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrat	Greens	Independents/Others
Date	Logo
May 2003
	Vote	33 %	24 %	15 %	15 %	14 %
	Cllrs elected	509	174	122	174	240

6 th April 2007
	Vote	40 %	34 %	10 %	14 %	1 %	1 %
	1000 Scottish adults were surveyed by telephone between 22 nd and 27 th March 2007. Published 6 th April 2007

26 th April 2007
	Vote	33 %	34 %	14 %	13 %	3 %	3 %
	1000 Scottish adults were surveyed by telephone between 13 th and 19 th April 2007. Published 26 th April 2007

Who would make the best First Minister?

Date	Jack McConnell	Alex Salmond	Annabel Goldie	Nicol Stephen	None of these	Don't know
6 th April 2007	18 %	24 %	5 %	3 %	20 %	30 %
26 th April 2007	19 %	25 %	5 %	4 %	19 %	28 %

How would you vote in an independence referendum?

Date	Agree	Disagree
6 th April 2007	46 %	54 %
26 th April 2007	42 %	58 %

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