How much is the SNP going to harm Labour in the general election? Labour is already braced for a battering but a new set of polling from Lord Ashcroft shows just how great the SNP threat is. The Tory peer has polled 16,000 Scots in 14 Labour-SNP target seats and two Lib Dem seats — all areas that Ashcroft said voted yes for independence or the result was close.
His snapshot reveals that the SNP is ahead in 13 of the 14 Labour targets and ahead in both of the Lib Dem targets. This represents a 25 per cent swing in the Labour targets. If you want to see the results for each seat, use the dropdown box on this interactive chart (above for Labour, below for the Lib Dems) to look at how the vote has changed since the 2010 election.
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All of the 14 Labour seats seats currently have substantial majorities. All but one of these would be overturned if there was an election tomorrow.
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