So I voted a couple of hours ago, and I Made Mine A Double, Stoo. No real clues about the turnout because I always choose a quiet time of day, but there was a steady trickle of people going in and out. The fabled 'peach' ballot paper is so enormous that it's almost farcical.
I ran out of time last night to cover all of the remaining opinion polls, so just for the sake of completeness, here are the ones I didn't get round to...
SNP 39%
Reform UK 18%
Labour 18%
Liberal Democrats 11%
Conservatives 10%
Greens 2%
Regional list ballot:
SNP 28%
Reform UK 19%
Labour 16%
Greens 15%
Conservatives 11%
Liberal Democrats 9%
I can't really discern any consistent trend across the polling industry, except maybe that the SNP do seem to have slipped back a little on the list over the course of the campaign. But their constituency vote seems to have held up fine, at least according to the majority of firms. Perhaps the oddest finding is Ipsos showing Labour making a five-point recovery on the constituency ballot, which if the poll is exactly right will do them no good whatsoever in terms of seats because they remain stuck on a dismal fourth place on the list.
Although the central finding of the YouGov MRP is that the SNP will be three seats short of an outright majority, it does suggest there is still an 11% chance of a majority because a handful of constituency seats are so tight. If the poll is exactly right (a big if), the SNP would need to win *six* of the following seven coin-toss seats in order to win a majority of one.
Aberdeenshire West (YouGov projection: SNP 32%, Conservatives 31%)
Dumbarton (YouGov projection: Labour 37%, SNP 36%)
Dumfriesshire (YouGov projection: SNP 31%, Reform UK 27%, Conservatives 25%)
Eastwood (YouGov projection: Conservatives 30%, SNP 29%)
Glasgow Kelvin & Maryhill (YouGov projection: Greens 32%, SNP 29%)
Strathkelvin & Bearsden (YouGov projection: Liberal Democrats 36%, SNP 32%)
Edinburgh Southern (YouGov projection: SNP 34%, Labour 32%)
I would also give special mentions to Edinburgh Central, which YouGov have as a likely Green gain, Edinburgh Northern, which YouGov say is a likely Lib Dem gain, Galloway & West Dumfries, which YouGov say is a likely SNP gain, Banffshire & Buchan Coast, which YouGov have as a likely SNP hold, and East Lothian Coast & Lammermuirs, which YouGov say is a likely SNP hold. We have good reason to believe all of those could be very competitive.