CONTRARY to popular belief, it was Motherwell rather than Hamilton that elected Scotland’s first-ever SNP parliamentarian.
and thus didn’t stand candidates against each other – provided an opening for the SNP’s party secretary Robert McIntyre to make a winning pitch to a local electorate hungry for a proper choice.
So do traces of that almost revolutionary spirit survive into the present day, and if so, could that be of help to the SNP as they seek to fend off a resurgence in the newly-redrawn constituency of Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke from a modern Labour Party that are very much a small-c conservative version of themselves?The evidence is mixed.
Further clues that Motherwell may not be one of the SNP’s areas of greatest underlying strength are provided by the election results in the equivalent Scottish Parliament constituency, which did not fall to the SNP until 2016. That means Labour held it even when the SNP were being elected to power nationally in both 2007 and 2011.
The constituency-level projections from polling companies suggest that it is happening to a big enough extent to put the SNP in trouble locally. Survation has Labour ahead of the SNP in Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke by a margin of 54% to 25%.
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