In South of Scotland, the Scottish Greens took 18,964 votes while IGV won 1,690 votes.
“However, it also has to be established that there is good reason to believe that voters were confused.
Regarding IGV’s name and official registration as a party in 2003, Professor Curtice, an expert on elections, said that in agreeing to the name the EC would have “considered whether it was potentially confusing”.