Holyrood Elections Roundtable

Katelyn Nutley

Speakers: Professor Sir John Curtice (Strathclyde), Dr Jan Eichhorn (Edinburgh), Allan Faulds  (Ballot Box) and Mark McGeoghegan (IPSOS).

St Andrews

<h2>Holyrood Elections Roundtable</h2>With the 2026 Scottish Parliament election weeks away, the St Andrews Election Monitoring Project is bringing together some of the sharpest minds in Scottish electoral politics for a day of analysis, data, and discussion.This event marks the launch of our student-led project, which will use the 2026 Scottish Parliament election as a live, hands-on opportunity to teach ourselves and undergraduates about quantitative methods and the electoral process. Over the coming weeks, we'll be building an incumbency tracker across all 73 constituencies, aggregating voting intention data, and developing a predictive model for the Holyrood result — with the goal of circling back after May 7th to talk honestly about what we got right, and what we didn't.We are delighted to be joined by four expert guests.Professor Sir John Curtice is the UK's foremost election analyst. Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde and Senior Research Fellow at NatCen, he leads What Scotland Thinks and has been the go-to voice for electoral interpretation across decades of British elections and referendums.Dr Jan Eichhorn is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh and co-founder of the think tank d|part. A Co-Investigator on the ESRC-funded Scottish Election Study, his research focuses on electoral behaviour, political participation, and the long-term effects of Scotland's decision to lower the voting age to 16 — a question with direct relevance to this election.Allan Faulds is the founder of Ballot Box Scotland, one of our key data sources and an indispensable resource for anyone trying to make sense of Scottish polling and constituency-level dynamics. Allan covers the full breadth of Scottish elections with a rigour and clarity that has made the site essential reading ahead of May 7th.Mark McGeoghegan is an author, columnist, and pollster, and a doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow, where his thesis examines the political tactics of self-determination movements. He writes widely on Scottish politics and secessionism, and brings both analytical depth and a keen eye for the bigger constitutional picture.Scotland's elections belong to everyone. This event is the first of two — a chance to bring students, researchers, and the wider public into a shared conversation about how Scotland votes, what the data can tell us, and what it can't. We'll reconvene after May 7th to ask the harder question: what did we get right, and what did we miss? We hope you'll be part of both.

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