[arista]

Nigel Farage MP is there today.


Not the PM
he is in Glasgow.


[The current political race in this former
coal mining heartland of west central Scotland
will decide who represents Hamilton,
Larkhall and Stonehouse in the
Scottish Parliament following the death
of the SNP's Christina McKelvie.

It also has wider significance.]





[Driving around what is now the Hamilton,
Larkhall and Stonehouse constituency,
you would be forgiven for thinking the
2025 contest was a two horse race
between the SNP and Reform UK.]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn10mpjjlo

[That's only because these are the
parties dominating billboard advertising.

This observation takes no account of the
intensive door knocking, direct mailing
and social media campaigning that's been
going on for weeks.]

[Crimson Dynamo]

How anyone in Hamilton can be thinking about voting for Labour or the SNP is mindblowing

[arista]

[Scottish Parliamentary by-election - Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse -
Thursday 5 June 2025]

https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/...ay_5_june_2025


It's Full Title.

[arista]

Good on Ch5HDnews


Live there now


The reporter went to a place Nigel Farage was to speak.
But a group of Protesters stopped that.

[arista]

Davy Russell - Scottish Labour
Katy Loudon - SNP
Richard Nelson - Conservative
Aisha Mir - LibDems
Ross Alexander Lambie - Reform UK
Ann McGuiness- Green Party
Collette Bradley - Scottish Socialist Party,


The Main 7 standing
another 3 not worthy of listing.


Ref: Ch5HDnews Data

[bots]

Hamilton was traditionally labour but the constituency has been expanded a lot since then

[arista]

Ch4HDnews
Also sent their Reporter to Hamilton.

Labour claim it's a fight of them Vs the SNP
only


And Richard Findley - Conservative Leader
says he is perfectly cuddly?
He went with R. Nelson.
To the front doors


One old boy in a local pub said he voted
Reform UK
Some said SNP or Labour

[arista]

Polls now Shut
in this Scottish By- Elections


GBnewsHD Live there

[arista]

Many think it could be


SNP
Labour
Reform UK

SkyNewsHD is also Live there.

[joeysteele]

Hopefully SNP or Labour.
Preferably SNP for me.

[arista]

Hamilton by-election result
'too close to call' as counting continues


BBC should do a live show.
Maybe because it is Scotland its a NO WAY...........

[arista]

Live on SkyNewsHD


BBCnewsHD

[arista]

Results in the next 30mins

[arista]

Katy Loudon - SNP

or

Davy Russell - Scottish Labour

[arista]

Result Now

[arista]

Labour has Won it



SNP and Reform UK
both got over 7,000 votes


Labour defeats SNP to win
Hamilton by-election as Reform finish third



So

Labour
SNP
Reform UK

[bots]

there was nothing between the top 3, any of them could have won it, and at a general it will be completely up for grabs

[arista]

Labour: 8,559


SNP : 7,957
Reform UK : 7,088
Conservative : 1,621
Greens : 695
LibDem : 533

[joeysteele]

I'm surprised Labour won.
However pleased with those first 2 placings.

[Gusto Brunt]

Labour won. Wow.

[MTVN]

Good news, Swinney and Farage in the mud

[Gusto Brunt]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Good news, Swinney and Farage in the mud

I often think Farage is living a pipe dream.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Prof Sir John Curtice, an election expert, said Reform was “eating” the
Conservatives for “lunch, breakfast and dinner”.

He pointed out that although Labour’s vote share had declined since the 2021
election, from 33.6 per cent to 31.6 per cent, the SNP’s decline had been far
larger – from 46.2 per cent to 29.4 per cent.

However, he said the result was not good enough for Labour to expect to win
the Holyrood elections next year.

[bots]

its always the same, the political elites think they are unbeatable until they are not. They never learn.

The other parties need to make big efforts to steal the air from reform or there will be serious repurcussions