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SNP on course to remain Holyrood's biggest party in 2026, poll shows
THE SNP is on course to remain the biggest party in Holyrood in 2026 as disappointment with Labour’s Westminster government mounts, according to a prominent pollster.
Strathclyde University political scientist Professor Sir John Curtice’s analysis comes in the wake of a new Survation poll which predicted the SNP will fall from 62 to 52 seats in next year’s elections, but retain its status as the largest party
Scottish Labour will win just two more seats to return to their 2016 tally of 24, it found.
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