General Election 2015: Poll suggests political figures could lose seats to SNP
4 February 2015
A new poll by a Tory peer has suggested Labour's Douglas Alexander and Lib Dem minister Danny Alexander could lose their Westminster seats to the SNP.
Lord Ashcroft looked at 16 Scottish constituencies and indicated the SNP was ahead in 15 of them.The research comes as other polls suggest the nationalists are on course to win more UK parliamentary seats.Currently Labour has 41 MPs, the Lib Dems have 11, the SNP has six and the Tories have one.This latest survey took place between 5 and 30 January and involved telephoning 16,007 adults - the majority of whom live in areas where more voters said "Yes" in the Scottish independence referendum than said "No".It suggested that of the seven Glasgow seats held by Labour, six could be lost to the SNP.It also polled in the Inverness and Gordon areas where the majority opinion in the referendum was "No".One thousand adults were surveyed in the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency of Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.They were asked a series of questions including: "If there was a general election for the Westminster parliament tomorrow, which party would you vote for?"Ten percent of respondents said they would vote Lib Dem, with 38% saying they would back the SNP.