Poll tracker: How SNP and Labour support changed after election called

We’ll be updating this tracker right up to election day – and we’ve got plans for a new indy poll tracker in the future.

We’ve excluded UK-wide polls from our chart for accuracy reasons.

Many of them only poll a few hundred Scots, which experts say is not a large enough figure to generate an accurate picture of the situation in Scotland.

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Some of the polls we’ve used don’t include parties like Alba, the Greens or Reform UK. You’ll see gaps on the tracker for these parties where data was unavailable.

So far, ten polls have been conducted in Scotland since the General Election was called on May 22.

We’ve included all of those, and three polls taken here before the election was announced – so you can see how the parties were doing before campaigning started.

Our coverage of this election campaign has been wide-ranging – from in-depth constituency profiles to exclusive interviews with political leaders.

You can find all of our General Election coverage on the tab on our website, via our News section.

What have the polls told us so far?
 

In the ten polls conducted since the election was called, Labour have been leading in eight.

In two polls, published on June 9 and June 21, the SNP were tied – with Labour on 36%, the second time on 34%.

For most of the campaigning period, the two have been within 5% of one another.

It’s important to note that polls aren’t perfect. Most election polls only sample around 1000 people – enough to get a rough picture, but not enough to perfectly reflect the views of the public.

Here’s some of our coverage of the polls so far: