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ACCORDING to... the latest... Scottish... opinion poll... Labour con- tinues to command the allegiance of 49 per cent of the electorate, up seven per cent on its General Election vote...' (Scotsman, 12 September) THE Scotsman appended a note to its table of voting intentions explaining that it had eliminated the 14 per cent of those polled who refused to answer or who said they were undecided or would not vote. The Labour Party thus 'com- mands the allegiance' of only 42.14 per cent of the Scottish electorate. In the 1987 General Election, when nearly a quarter of the Scottish electorate did not vote, Labour commanded the alle- giance of 31.8 per cent of the electorate, though it is true it polled 42.4 per cent of the votes actually cast.
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