Catching up with the weekend's Scottish polling

Unless proximity to the election has cancelled out reluctance to poll over a bank holiday weekend we won't be getting any new polls for a day or two. In the meantime I should really update with a Scottish poll that came out over the weekend.

The Scottish Opinion poll for the Scottish Mail on Sunday had Westminster voting intentions of CON 11%, LAB 27%, LDEM 11%, SNP 43%. The poll had a sample size of only 650, so is what we'd normally consider just a snapshot poll in GB terms, and was conducted between 15th and 20th May.

The poll is rather out of line with other Scottish Westminster voting intention polls (though ironically, is very close to what other companies have for Holyrood intentions) - the Conservatives are far lower than in other pollas, Labour lower and the SNP much higher. There is no recent track record of Westminster polls for Scottish Opinion to look or, nor as far as I am aware are they members of the BPC, so we can't look at their details tables for an idea of where the differences come from.

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