I’ve put together a more detailed illustration of which Regional Seats were won by each party at which stage and then did a little experiment where I moved all the SNP list votes to the Green Party to see what effect that would have on the outcome of the election.

As is, this is the new state of the parties:

SNP: 64
CON: 31
LAB: 22
GRN: 8
LD: 4

Pro-Indy MAJ: 15

If everyone who had voted SNP in the list had actually went for the Greens instead, Parliament would look like this:

SNP: 62 (-2)
GRN: 35 (+27)
CON: 17 (-14)
LAB: 11 (-11)
LD: 4 (NC)

Pro-Indy MAJ: 65

Alex Salmond’s ALBA Party may have been an outrageous political stunt that went horribly wrong, but the idea of his that switching the list vote to another party to create an independence supermajority was actually true.

Note that my analysis didn’t include votes that went to ALBA; while taking this into account may shift things slightly it would be mostly insignificant.

But my analysis vindicates Salmond’s view that the SNP have indeed shot themselves in the foot with their both votes approach.

If the SNP were are serious about independence as their members believe it should be then they should have encouraged lending the peach vote to the Greens.

While the relationship between the parties can get strained on occasion, there is definitely mutual respect between them.

In fact, whether they like it or not, dual SNP voters at this election gave fourteen seats to the Conservatives that they could have avoided had they went Green instead.

The numbers I’ve seen tonight are pretty compelling storytelling, that’s for sure.

If you voted both votes SNP, why? And having seen this analysis, do you regret your choice?