How Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk has changed

This is a Conservative-held border seat whose platform evidence points elsewhere: the readable voices sit Centre Left, while John Lamont’s Commons record is Right. The contrast is sharper because his hold was substantial, yet no platform voice sits closest to the Conservatives.

The party picture is a dead heat between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, suggesting a seat whose dissent is not settling into one alternative home. Its national answers are similarly awkward for the mainstream: on the questions tested here, the platform voice repeatedly broke from the UK majority, while agreeing that Reform and the Greens draw support from voters with little political knowledge.

With only one active voter, this is a sketch rather than a portrait of the constituency. The archetypes — The All-Rounder and The Early-Days Centre-Left — reinforce a tentative, non-tribal mood rather than a settled realignment.

A new platform voice could decide whether this is an enduring Centre Left counterpoint or merely a first glimpse beneath a Conservative surface.