Living by numbers.

If you are old enough to remember British synthpop group New Musik, you will remember  their 1980s hit 'Living By Numbers'.

So here are three last observations about the numbers the Election has thrown up.

First. In Scotland 50% of the votes cast went to the SNP.  But they got 95% of the seats.

Second.  Only 71% of the electorate voted in Scotland in the Election.  

Third.  This means the SNP actually only managed to persuade 36% of the Scottish electorate to vote for them. Nicola persuaded 37% to vote Yes in the Referendum.  So in reality support for SNP dropped by 1%.  And given the SNP managed to get virtually their whole vote out on Election day, that means 64% of the Scottish electorate didn’t vote for the SNP.