Scotland

More Scots would be unhappy with the SNP working closely with the UK government at Westminster than say they would be unhappy about them working closely with the Northern Ireland Executive, led by Sinn Féin.

Ipsos’ latest Scottish polling finds a majority of the Scottish public think Keir Starmer should go before the next General Election, but none of his current Labour rivals receives a net positive rating from the Scottish public.

Ipsos’ post-Holyrood poll shows that a third (32%) of voters only made their minds up about how they would vote within the last week of the campaign, with 1 in 10 (11%) deciding on polling day itself.

Ipsos’ final 2026 Scottish Parliament election poll for STV News.

Over half of Scots (51%) think that energy policy should be devolved to the Scottish Government, while a quarter (25%) feel responsibility should be shared equally with the UK Government and 14% that it should be reserved to Westminster.

More than half of the Scottish public view immigrants as having a negative impact on the availability of housing.

With just two weeks to go until the Scottish Parliament election on 7th May, new data from Ipsos’s Scotland Political Pulse shows that, while voters are not particularly impressed by any of the parties, the SNP have the edge, with views on both the party and their leader improving since last month.

The SNP have extended their lead over Labour and Reform UK according to the latest Ipsos Scottish Political Monitor, taken in the first week of the Holyrood election campaigns (26-31 March) and conducted in partnership with STV News.

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