Opinion polls
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Voters born in England, older voters, more wealthy voters, Brexit supporters, Labour and conservative voters are all most likely to oppose Scottish independence.
Full answer here: Voter opposition to Scottish independence
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The evidence is mixed. Not all of the 60+% who vote to remain in the EU want independence.
Full answer here: How Brexit affects support for independence
A Broken Link? Support for Independence and the SNP
Author / Creator: John Curtice
Media type: Article
Date published:
One of the key developments in Scottish electoral politics over the last decade has been a strengthening of the relationship between constitutional preference and party choice.
The SNP’s independence push: navigating public opinion
Author / Creator: Stephanie Luke
Media type: Article
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Stephanie Luke analyses UK in a Changing Europe’s latest polling by Redfield & Wilton. She highlights that the SNP will struggle to keep the Westminster seats it currently holds if the party focuses too much time on independence alone.
Can the SNP win on July 4?
Author / Creator: Kirsty Hughes
Media type: Article
Date published:
Just days before Rishi Sunak’s bizarrely soggy general election call, the latest YouGov poll gave Labour a lead of 39% to just 29% for the SNP. That would decimate the SNP at Westminster and let Keir Starmer claim to speak for Britain (if not the whole UK).
The SNP may be laid low but the call of Scottish independence is loud and clear
Author / Creator: Neal Ascherson
Media type: Article
Date published:
Polls saying the nationalist cause is no priority among voters are misleading. The aspiration to once again be a sovereign European state has only been strengthened by devolution
Public Attitudes Toward Wellbeing Economics in Scotland
Author / Creator: : Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp
Media type: Report
Date published: 2020
Public attitude towards the adoption of a wellbeing economic approach in Scotland.
Scottish Social Attitudes survey 2021/22: attitudes data
Author / Creator: Alex Scholes
Media type: Report
Date published:
This survey report focuses on attitudes to government, the economy and public services.
Constitutional reform: Controversy or Consensus on how the UK should be governed
Author / Creator: John Curtice
Media type: Opinion poll
Date published: 2022
A majority of people want electoral reform, and Scottish independence. Increasing support is being shown for Irish reunification and for changing the UK constitution.
How Voters View the Economics of Independence
Author / Creator: JOHN CURTICE
Media type: Blog
Date published: February 2022
Unionists need to win the economic argument in the eyes of voters; for nationalists, on the other hand, a draw might well be enough.
What Scotland Thinks
Author / Creator: ScotCen; socal research that works for society
Media type: Website
Date published: 2014
Impartial, up-to-date information on public attitudes towards how the constituent parts of the UK should and are being governed.
200 No to Yes voters tell us why they now believe in Scotland
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Media type: Opinion poll
Date published:
A survey of 200 people who changed from "no" to "yes" showed multiple reasons. The main ones were:
- The effect of Brexit
- UK government incompetence
- Better Together lied
- Had come to have more belief in Scotland
- Felt NHS was not safe as part of the Union
Was Britain's economy already broken or will Brexit break it?
Author / Creator: The National
Media type: News Media
Date published:
The economic situation has been made even worse by the unfolding disaster that is Brexit. Scotland's view has been ignored by the Westminster government.
Scottish independence
Author / Creator: Institute for Government
Date published: 2021
This is a largely factual explainer by the Institute for Government of the issues around a referendum and the results of its success.