At the count...
It's been a long day. I was up and out of my flat, roughly 7:15am, voted at my local polling station and headed down the road by bike to Hyndland Secondary. I wasn't the first one there... Labour had arrived, SNP were there.. and even, at one point, Rev Hargreaves himself - the intolerant candidate incarnate - appeared. A variety of Scottish Christian Party folk were there, including at least one English supporter who clearly had no idea about the levels of representation of the Greens in Scotland but was happy to badmouth us. Oh well. Numbers of representatives and numbers of voters waxed and waned throughout the day. The day itself started at fridge temperature, turned into a solar frying pan and then as shade descended became a pleasant medium.
Most of the Kelvin candidates spent at least some time there - I saw Pauline McNeil, Katy Gordon, Sandra White (briefly), Brian Cooklin and briefly Niall Walker (though mostly his mother and a friend held that station). Other parties represented for some period were SSP and Solidarity. The Libdems in the form of the dynamic Jamie (the closest the LibDems have to a Green!) and his friend Ali(?-sorry if I've miss remembered), did a good job... (though I persuaded a good few greens back to Green). Many people came certain of their voting intentions (LibDem, Labour, Tory, SNP).
The reception which the Green message received was generally cordial. Where people were waverers a discussion frequently tipped them towards a principled positive vote (Green). How good our result will be is any body's guess. The paper ballots are being scanned as I type this...