If Scottish football clubs could vote, what would be their intentions today?

I've spent 25 years (even longer in some cases) mooching around our Scottish game's great institutions. Remember, "a club" is its supporters.

Here is my toe-in-the-water take on their political colours…

Rangers:

Now this is interesting. There is a strong Tory spine to the Ibrox club, a deposit from the old days when Govan's working man had distinct Conservative leanings, as well as the Ibrox club's sometimes obscure "Unionist" identity as a Union Flag-waving congregation. There are sections of red socialism and even SNP indies among the faithful, but Rangers still seems to me to be swayed towards the Right, especially on tax issues.

At the ballot box: Conservative

Hibernian:

Bit of a lefty rabble, this, I think. The joint is teeming with working men of old socialist leanings, with quite a few trendy SNP types invading the scene. The Hibs support is colourful, with a bohemian streak, the club beloved of writers, artists and other celebs. This is the distinct underdog of the Hibs-Hearts Edinburgh axis, and with that comes a clear political image.

At the ballot box: Labour

Kilmarnock:

An interesting one. Much of Ayrshire has been a Labour heartland, and the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency - current MP Cathy Jamieson - has been Labour since 1929. That said, there is a whiff of the determined, small businessman about the Killie support, as well as a swelling in SNP activists. So this is a variegated leaf.

At the ballot box: Labour/SNP

Celtic

Rabid, red, underdog socialism rules. But with growing, healthy portions of "the 45" and the rise of Independence. The Labour vote in recent times had looked solid amid the Celtic support, but last year's Referendum and the swift rise of Nicola Sturgeon has changed some fans' thinking. The more politically-minded Celtic fan also turned on Labour, Tony Blair and former club chairman, John Reid, over the Iraq War. But quintessentially of the Left.

At the ballot box: Labour/SNP

Hearts:

This is the establishment club of Edinburgh - not like its sometimes lighter-minded, uncouth rival across town. Hearts remains starch-collared, stiff-necked Conservative with a voluptuous 'C'. Of course, football is the working man's game, and some low-level socialists, George Foulkes-types and SNP keenies have inveigled the support. But the club has a strong Conservative ethos.

At the ballot box: Conservative

Partick Thistle:

Oh, this is out-and-out beardy Lib-Dem, a left-of-centre support that sometimes appears to detest Labour and Conservative in equal measures. Your Thistle types - working men and women, geography teachers, educationists, trendy Glasgow west end sorts - make for compassionate political sympathies, in part sprung from a football club on its uppers for much of the time. The enhanced minimum wage would be a Thistle non-negotiable.

At the ballot box: Liberal Democrat

Dundee United:

A surge of SNP support has washed over the club, turning many Arabs from red to yellow in the course of a political season. The city of Dundee has had interesting political flavours down the decades, but the independence-minded Arab is now a staple of the scene at Tannadice. A Left-leaning club manager means nothing here; this is a clear-cut decision on polling day.

At the ballot box: SNP

Aberdeen

Oh dear. This is a Lib-Dem/SNP dogfight, with some Labour hangers-on and some isolated but extremely well-dressed Tories in attendance. At one point, with the fiery Sir Alex Ferguson in charge, the Dons had a socialist dragon in its midst, but there has been much change over the last 25 years, and especially over the last 12 months. This club could well be ranked an 'undecided'.

At the ballot box: swithering LibDem/SNP.

Motherwell:

There is no argument: solid, solid Labour. Not up for debate. No room for doubt. Even the SNP feel the squeeze here. This is Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, Denis Healey Labour here. End of.

At the ballot box: Labour

St Johnstone:

This is a most interesting case: the club would go to the polling booth today caught between mild Tory instinct and a swelling SNP conviction. Perth as a town is certainly conservative with a small 'c' and this has shown traces of political thinking with a large 'C'. Some Lefty Stuart Cosgrove-types also around. The 'Saintees' might also be classed as undecided.

At the ballot box: Conservative/SNP/LibDem

St Mirren:

What a dogfight this is - it's a straight fist-off between Labour and the SNP. Local Labour MP Douglas Alexander is fighting to save a 16,000 majority against the upstart SNP 20 year old, Mhairi Black, and the St Mirren support reflects this. Where once was visceral raw-red Labour is now becoming an SNP stronghold.

At the ballot box: SNP

Queen of the South:

There is the mere whiff of Tory here. As well as their famous mention in the Bible, Queens and its support has just a daud of the old Tory about it, with Dumfries and its environs housing quite a few Right-leaning folk. Is there a rural hint, too, of bearded Lib-Dem?

At the ballot box: Tory/SNP