General election forecast

Glasgow North

Predicted winner: Labour with 30.7% of the vote, a 0.1pp margin over SNP.

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Predicted vote share

How the model expects this constituency to vote

Labour
30.7% +30.7pp
SNP
30.6% +30.6pp
Green Party
15.2% +15.2pp
Reform UK
11.7% +6.9pp
Conservative
4.0% +4.0pp
Lib Dem
3.6% +0.3pp
Restore
2.5% +2.5pp
Alba Party
1.6% -0.0pp
Plaid Cymru
0.2% +0.2pp
Other
0.0% 0.0pp

Coloured number is the swing from the 2024 general election result.

Sitting MP

Martin Rhodes

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2024 general election result

What happened on 4 July 2024

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Martin Rhodes Labour Party 14,655 42.2%
Alison Thewliss Scottish National Party (SNP) 11,116 32.0%
Iris Duane Scottish Green Party 4,233 12.2%
Helen Burns Reform UK 1,655 4.8%
Naveed Asghar Conservative and Unionist Party 1,366 3.9%
Daniel Khan-O'Malley Lib Dem 1,142 3.3%
Nick Durie Alba Party 572 1.6%

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 North, and what actually happened.

✗ Winner missed , predicted SNP, actual Labour. Major-party MAE: 5.57pp, the average gap between our predicted vote share and the actual share, per major party.

Predicted

Labour
32.1%
SNP
38.9%
Scottish Green Party
4.8%
Reform UK
11.7%
Conservative
0.0%
Lib Dem
6.3%
Alba Party
0.0%
Green Party
4.0%
Independent
0.7%
Workers Party
0.7%

Actual on 4 July 2024

Labour
42.2% -10.0pp
SNP
32.0% +6.9pp
Scottish Green Party
12.2% -7.4pp
Reform UK
4.8% +6.9pp
Conservative
3.9% -3.9pp
Lib Dem
3.3% +3.0pp
Alba Party
1.7% -1.7pp
Green Party
0.0% +4.0pp
Independent
0.0% +0.7pp
Workers Party
0.0% +0.7pp

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
  1. GE2024 Baseline. Actual GE2024 result in Glasgow North
  2. National Swing (Strong Transition Model). Multiplicative bounded swing, losers shed in proportion to local share, gainers absorb pro-rata national gain. Replaces additive UNS.
  3. BES MRP Prior. Baseline blended with BES Wave 1-30 scotland prior at weight 5%
  4. Normalise. Shares scaled to 100%

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