The Glasgow North East by-election forced by the resignation of the former Commons speaker is to take place on 12 November.

The Sunday Times today carries the first poll for the forthcoming Glasgow North East by-election. It is carried out by Scottish Opinion and shows vote shares of CON 6%, LAB 51%, LDEM 3%, SNP 33%. The Sunday Times report concludes from this that “The SNP would struggle to win a snap by-election in Michael Martin’s Glasgow

NO decision on the timing of the Glasgow North East by-election will be taken until after Michael Martin steps down as Commons Speaker and MP on June 21. It makes a summer poll highly unlikely. Scottish Labour - who were keen to avoid a July campaign - are now very confident it will take place in September or October. And who knows if it will be a separate by-election? Speculation about an October...

VOTERS are today casting their verdict in the Glasgow North East by-election, the seat made vacant by the resignation of the Commons Speaker Michael Martin.

Cross-border splits appear to be emerging in the Labour Party about the timing of a by-election in Glasgow North East following the resignation of Michael Martin as Speaker of the House of Commons and local MP.

Rather to my surprise - I wasn't expecting anyone to risk polling a by-election in area where social problems are going to make getting a good sample a bit tricky - there is due to be an ICM poll of Glasgow East in the Sunday Telegraph. In the Crewe and Nantwich by-election the polls over-estimated the

In an attempt to turn around my betting fortunes my eye has turned to the Glasgow North East by-election, set for 12th November. The seat It's the former Commons Speaker Michael Martin's, who stood down disgraced and considerably more well off. In an area that has a high rate of poverty opinions are mixed, some having empathy for a local man saying he was a set-up, others that he's a greedy haggis...

With less than a week of campaigning left, an opinion poll today indicates that Labour is pulling ahead of the SNP in the Glasgow East by-election. The poll for the Scottish Daily Mail gives Labour's Margaret Curran a 17 per cent lead over her nearest rivals the Scottish National Party. According to the poll, more than half the voters in Glasgow East are supporting Labour - 52 per cent - with the ...

THE countdown to what is likely to be the last serious electoral test in Britain before next year's general election began last night when 12 November was formally announc

Populus have carried out an extra snap poll following the Glasgow East by-election, it was conducted between the 25th and 27th, so is the first with fieldwork conducted entirely after the by-election result. The topline voting intention figures are CON 43%(+2), LAB 27%(-1), LDEM 18%(+1), so a slight shift to the Conservatives, but that's taken from