Taxi for Bomber Admin?

Bella Caledonia has just helpfully directed me to a list of Scottish Westminster seats, sorted by referendum result.  I haven't seen anything like that before, and to be perfectly honest I'm not sure whether all of the results are definitive.  Because the referendum count was done on a local authority basis, some of them may be notional results (ie. intelligent estimates).  However, if we can assume they're probably fairly accurate, they make for fascinating reading.  Here's what leaps out at me -

1) Fifteen out of fifty-nine constituencies voted Yes - more than a quarter.  Our unionist friends used to love nothing better than a really good gloat about how only four out of thirty-two local authorities voted Yes, but that was always grossly misleading, due to two of the Yes-voting authorities being so enormous.

2) The highest Yes vote was not, as you would think, in one of the Dundee seats, but instead in Glasgow South.  Amusingly, that's the seat being defended for Labour by über-Blairite Tom Harris.  It's little wonder that our dear old pal "Bomber Admin" may soon be seeking a more constructive form of employment.

3) Glenrothes is sometimes cited as an example of a constituency that Labour might just hold, but these figures would suggest otherwise.  It was one of the fifteen Yes seats (albeit only very narrowly).

4) Slightly to my surprise, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey voted Yes fairly decisively.  I knew Inverness was a Yes city, but I had thought perhaps the rural parts of the seat tipped the balance in favour of No.  To stick with a recurring theme, Danny Alexander is toast.

5) Gordon isn't quite the hard-core No area it's sometimes portrayed as - the Yes vote there was 41.7%.  So Alex Salmond was scarcely defying gravity when he got 43% of the vote in the January constituency poll from Ashcroft.  There's no particular reason to think his support will have dipped since then, so if the Liberal Democrats seriously believe their spin about being on the brink of victory, the tactical voting in their favour is going to have to be on an industrial scale.  They were on just 26% in the Ashcroft poll, and unlike in so many other Lib Dem-seats, their candidate doesn't have a personal vote to fall back on.

6) The most No-heavy seat in the country was Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, where Yes only received 32.9% of the vote.  But ironically, if Ashcroft is to be believed, that vote share might conceivably be enough to win the seat for the SNP.  The reason is that the unionist vote is split down the middle between the Tories and the Lib Dems, and it will be virtually impossible for anyone to work out which is the more promising anti-SNP tactical option.