Election 2021: Covid safety measures in place at polling stations
Voters will cast their ballots while observing social distancing, and the count will take place over two days
Polling places will be set out to maintain social distancing and Covid safety at Thursday s Holyrood election (Image: Contributed/Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser)
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Election 2021: candidates in Airdrie and Coatbridge seats
Voters will choose constituency representatives and regional list MSPs at Thursday s Holyrood election
North Lanarkshire has 117 voting venues for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election (Image: Contributed/Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser)
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Voters in the two Monklands seats will each see five candidates listed on their constituency ballot papers at Thursday’s Holyrood election.
Result in 2016: SNP 9 seats (9 constituency, 0 list), Labour 4 seats (0 constituency, 4 list), Conservatives 3 seats (0 constituency, 3 list) WHEN people say “the SNP don’t take any list seats in my region”, what they often really mean is that the SNP didn’t take any list seats last time around. It’s by no means always clear that history is bound to repeat itself. However, the reason the SNP don’t have any list seats in Central Scotland is that they won all nine constituency seats in the region in 2016. It would take quite an imaginative leap to suppose that the situation will change dramatically in this election, because Labour are in a reasonably distant second place in every one of the nine. The closest thing there is to a marginal is Coatbridge & Chryston, but even there the gap between SNP and Labour is 13.3%, meaning on a uniform swing that Labour would have to get within around ten percentage points of the SNP nationally to make the gain – and there’s
THE Scottish Greens have been accused of “actively working against” the independence cause by fighting the SNP in a dozen constituencies at the Holyrood election and potentially helping Unionist candidates win. The claim came from Alex Salmond s pro-independence Alba Party, which has urged its supporters to vote SNP in constituencies and Alba on the regional list in order to maximise the number of pro-independence MSPs. Senior Alba candidate Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, a former SNP MP, also suggested the Greens were not being honest with voters and taking them for “fools”. Although they have yet to come close to doing it, the Scottish Greens have long hoped to win a constituency in Scotland, emulating the success of Green MP Caroline Lucas, who has held the Brighton Pavilion seat at Westminster since 2010.
Politicians call for extended newspaper rates relief
A Coatbridge election candidate is now among those backing Holyrood calls to continue support for the industry.
Central Scotland MSP Graham Simpson led the debate (Image: Tom Dick/Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser)
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