POLLS CONTINUE TO SHOW MOMENTUM WITH SNP

Falkirk West candidate for Falkirk West, Michael Matheson, welcomed the latest opinion poll published on Sunday 3 April that shows the SNP moving ahead in the campaign for Holyrood.

The election momentum is with the SNP as a poll in today’s Sunday Times puts the party ahead for the first time this election suggesting  the SNP would win 54 seats in the Scottish Parliament compared to 52 for the Labour Party.

The poll also shows the SNP has the only credible candidate to be First Minister with 85% recognition across Scotland to only 27% for Iain Gray who falls behind the Tory leader for the third time.

And Alex Salmond is the only leader able to satisfy Scotland’s voters with a positive satisfaction rating of + 18  as people express their dissatisfaction with all other leaders north and south of the border.

Conducted by Panelbase between 24th and 29th March the poll has the SNP and Labour neck and neck on the constituency vote and the SNP ahead by 5% on the list vote. The list vote is the one that determines the overall balance of the Scottish Parliament and is the vote that will decide who becomes First Minister in Scotland.

The results are:

Constituency vote:

SNP 37
Lab 37
Con 13
Lib 8

List seats vote:

SNP 37
Lab 32
Con 11
Lib 7
Gre 5

Michael said,

“The polls are confirming what we are finding on the doorsteps, that the momentum is with the SNP.

Liberals are defecting to the SNP in the hordes because of the pact with the Tories at UK government level and with Labour for their alliance with the Tories within the council.

In addition people have recognised that only the SNP are fighting a positive campaign based on our vision and are being turned off by the wholly negative campaign from the Labour Party.

We will be doubling our efforts over the remainder of the campaign to ensure that on May 5 Falkirk West delivers two decisive SNP votes to ensure that we continue to move forward as a nation.”