Originally Posted by
alwayslookingup
The SNP gained the most votes and most Scottish seats in Scotland in the UK General Elections of 2015 & 2017, Scottish Parliament Election 2016 and European Election 2019. And it's not exactly a secret what the SNP wishes to succeed with.
That may well be true of an individual party, but when you look at grouping the results into those parties pro-independence (SNP and Greens) and those pro-union (Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems and UKIP) the results are very different...
2015 UK General Election (Scottish votes)...
Pro-indy votes 1,493,641 = 51.5%
Pro-union votes 1,407997 = 48.5%
2016 Scottish Parliament Election...
Pro-indy votes 1,073,069 = 47.3%
Pro-union votes 1,194,433 = 52.7%
2017 UK General Election (Scottish votes)...
Pro-indy votes 983,455 = 37.2%
Pro-union votes 1,659,319 = 62.8%
2019 EU Election (Scottish votes)...
Pro-indy votes 714,156 = 46.3%
Pro-union votes 838,913 = 53.7%
What the results show is that support for independence has actually stayed pretty much the same as the IndyRef vote (and in half the elections actually fallen), and the last real election results covering the whole of Scotland (can't include the EU election as we all know how seriously people take that and this year was purely aBrexit vote) showed a major swing away from the pro-independence parties.