General election forecast
Glasgow East
Predicted winner: Labour with 31.8% of the vote, a 0.1pp margin over SNP.
Predicted vote share
How the model expects this constituency to vote
Coloured number is the swing from the 2024 general election result.
Sitting MP
John Grady
- Party: Labour Party
- Tenure: 2.1 years (since 2024-07-04)
- Status: standing again
See also: TheyWorkForYou
2024 general election result
What happened on 4 July 2024
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Grady | Labour Party | 15,543 | 43.9% |
| David Linden | Scottish National Party (SNP) | 11,759 | 33.2% |
| Amy Kettyles | Scottish Green Party | 2,727 | 7.7% |
| Donnie McLeod | Reform UK | 2,371 | 6.7% |
| Thomas Jordan Kerr | Conservative and Unionist Party | 1,707 | 4.8% |
| Matthew James Clark | Lib Dem | 872 | 2.5% |
| Liam McLaughlan | Scottish Socialist Party | 466 | 1.3% |
Source: Returning officer declaration
How accurate is the model here?
Our 2024 backtest for this constituency
We replayed the same model architecture against the 4 July 2024 general election using only the data a forecaster running the model in May 2024 would have known. Here's what it would have predicted for Glasgow East, and what actually happened.
Predicted
Actual on 4 July 2024
Positive gap = we predicted that party would win more share than they did. See the full GE backtest across all 650 seats for the model's national accuracy.
How this forecast was built
- GE2024 Baseline. Actual GE2024 result in Glasgow East
- National Swing (Strong Transition Model). Multiplicative bounded swing, losers shed in proportion to local share, gainers absorb pro-rata national gain. Replaces additive UNS.
- BES MRP Prior. Baseline blended with BES Wave 1-30 scotland prior at weight 5%
- Normalise. Shares scaled to 100%