Social researcher, interested in people, politics, and nerdy methods stuff. Works at Ipsos but views own etc.
Rachel Ormston
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My dad would have been 81 today. He was the best dad - wise, kind, unintentionally funny, a terrible loser at board games (a trait I have absolutely inherited). I miss him a lot. Happy birthday Dad.
📢Holyrood polling klaxon! Our final SP vote intention poll before the big day is now out @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social. SNP comfortably ahead, but seat projections based on our figures indicate they may fall short of a majority. While race for second place is too close to call.
This is very interesting from the Scottish Sentencing Council - a ‘you be the judge’ case, which also explains how the sentencing process works. www.scottishsentencingcouncil.org.uk/sentencingpr... Fits really well with recommendations from @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social attitudes to sentencing survey
New @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social polling on reactions to the Holyrood election and more - including expectations of the new government, which are not, at this point, high. www.ipsos.com/en-uk/ipsos-...
Most people in Scotland think Keir Starmer should go before the next GE, but views on his rivals for UK Labour leadership are not particularly favourable either. See below for more on this, as well as views on whether Anas Sarwar should lead Scottish Labour into the next Holyrood election.
Seat projections from @ballotbox.scot based on our final @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social poll before #Holyrood2026 vote. May be a tough few days for Scottish Labour, and even tougher for the Scottish Conservatives.
Wrote something for @heraldscotland.bsky.social on what lessons Scotland’s opposition parties might take from #holyrood2026, using our @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social post election poll data.
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
May leaderboard📊
We asked the public 'to what extent, if at all, do you have a favourable or unfavourable opinion of the following politicians and political parties?’.
New @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social post-election poll findings, out today, show a third of Scottish voters only made their minds up in the final week of the campaign, with 1 in 10 deciding on polling day itself. For more findings, see bit.ly/4wUkv4J
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New report: Does independence still matter?❓
A new report by @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social and published by @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social and the @glasgow.ac.uk Centre for Public Policy, says constitutional preferences are still important to voters in Scotland.
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www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
NEW Holyrood voting intention from Ipsos Scotland and STV news
🟡The SNP are comfortably ahead on 35%, -4 from 26-31 March
🔴Second place is too close to call: Labour on 20% (+5), Reform UK close behind on 18% (+3) while Conservatives trail on 11% (N/C) tied with Lib Dems (+1)
New @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social polling out today, finds many Scots unenthused by the election results, with 'disappointed' and 'frustrated' the most common words to describe how they feel about it. www.ipsos.com/en-uk/ipsos-...
What do people in Scotland make of the politicians mentioned as future Labour leadership hopefuls? New
@ipsosinscotland.bsky.social polling suggests they have yet to impress the Scottish public. www.ipsos.com/en-uk/labour...
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’ 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 rati...
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The final Ipsos poll of the campaign is good news for Reform, the Greens and Lib Dems, but bad for the SNP, Labour and Conservatives; nonetheless, there’d be a clear Pro-Independence majorit…
