UKIP have gained two seats in East Sussex so far (Pevensey and Westham; Seaford Sutton).

I've just noticed the local paper (The Argus) has reported on results from Eastbourne and Hastings:

Labour councillors in Hastings are celebrating a historic victory in the county council elections.

For the first time in their history, Labour holds seven out of the eight East Sussex County Council seats in the town.

The victory, which saw Labour gain three wards, even surpasses their 1997 success of six seats when voting was held on the same day as the General Election.

It is a case of as you were in Eastbourne with the Liberal Democrats holding on to their six seats and the Conservatives keeping their three.

The closest challenge came in Sovereign ward where UKIP challenger Robert Harper fell 156 votes shy.

UKIP came second in all but four of the seats in Eastbourne and Hastings.

The first confirmed results arrived at 1am and both Eastbourne and Hastings returned within one hour.

Turnout in Hastings was 29.96% with more than 19,000 residents voting and 33.58% in Eastbourne.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10397530.East_Sussex_County_Council_2013_election_results/

Good result for Labour in Hastings then. And UKIP Elsewhere.. The rest of the county is yet to declare.

Edit: Live results here: http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10396628.Live__East_and_West_County_Council_Elections_2013/

Just blame Bush like a good liberal.

That's the kind of thing you have to wait for someone to actually do before you try to criticize them for it..

Horrible

I just saw a quote which seems quite appropriate at the moment:

“I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy”. – Martin Luther King

It's also not a good idea to try to live amongst bears, I understand.

I've spotted the Grizzly Man reference. Get me.

This is the local authority I was originate from, as I was born at Farnborough Hospital and lived in Penge when I was very young

With regards to the Beckenham constituency, the removal of Penge in the most recent boundary review made it notionally the safest Tory seat in the country IIRC.

Excellent

[I've worked out I can make super-detailed maps (at Lower Super Output Area) of anywhere in England and Wales]

I've worked out I can make super-detailed maps (at Lower Super Output Area) of anywhere in England and Wales

Any requests?  I'm afraid I probably can't do all of England and Wales as one map as it would be bloody massive..  I can definitely do whole cities and counties, and probably regions.

Religion maps for Yorkshire.  The Muslim one is likely to have the most striking patterns, but some of the others might too.

Degree-level qualifications for various areas (up to you really...)

Jedi in Sussex

I've added a map showing the concentration of the degrees at lower level to the degree map I originally posted.  Bigger version here: http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=8411

[I've worked out I can make super-detailed maps (at Lower Super Output Area) of anywhere in England and Wales]

I've worked out I can make super-detailed maps (at Lower Super Output Area) of anywhere in England and Wales

Any requests?  I'm afraid I probably can't do all of England and Wales as one map as it would be bloody massive..  I can definitely do whole cities and counties, and probably regions.

Great maps Afleitch and YL!

[Highest level of qualification: Level 4 qualifications and above]

Highest level of qualification: Level 4 qualifications and above

Left: Highest level of qualification: % with Level 4 qualifications and above
Right: Percentage point change since 2001.

Bigger version in Gallery: http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=8233

What is going on on the south-western cost?

Do you mean the areas where % with a degree has gone up a lot?  Rural gentrification, basically.

And that place on the East Anglia south coast the educated ones are fleeing from, is that Ipswich?

No, it's Great Yarmouth. Although, bear in mind, the % with a degree isn't going down there (or anywhere on that map), its just that is comparatively increased by much less compared to other places.

Arthur Russell - Mahaska, Iowa
Neutral Milk Hotel - Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Scott Walker (no, not that one) - Butler, Ohio
Daniel Johnston - Hancock, West Virginia
Joanna Newsom - Nevada, Los Angeles

The map on the right is quite telling.

On the degree map or the no qualifications map?

[Highest qualification level: Percent with no qualifications]

Highest qualification level: Percent with no qualifications



Left: Percent with no qualifications
Right: Percentage point change since 2001

Bigger version in gallery: http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=8234

[Highest level of qualification: Level 4 qualifications and above]

Highest level of qualification: Level 4 qualifications and above



Left: Highest level of qualification: % with Level 4 qualifications and above
Right: Percentage point change since 2001.

Bigger version in Gallery: http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=8233

The map below shows concentration within local authority boundaries.



Bigger version in Gallery: http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=8411

For those interested in gentrification in the context of England and Wales please note the following map.  For details see the same image in the 'demographic maps' section of the gallery.  Bluer areas are those which have become comparatively more managerial/professional etc.  Note the trends in certain rural areas compared to certain outer-suburban areas in and around London.

This map shows the percentage point change in the proportion of people categorised as Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations, Lower Managerial and Professional Occupations and Intermediate Occupations. The middle classes (in the British sense of the word) basically. Dark blue reflects an increase of over 14%, light blue an increase of over 9%, yellow an increase of over 5% and only red reflects a decrease.

Awesome!

What follows is some analysis of the top 10 local authorties for unusual answers to the religion question:

‘Druid’
9   Oadby and Wigston
   
These are districts I'd expect wizardy weirdos to live in.

That one doesn't fit in with the others.

Didn't notice that once - yes, doesn't really fit in..

What follows is some analysis of the top 10 local authorties for unusual answers to the religion question:

‘Druid’
1   Mendip
2   North Dorset
3   Lewes
4   West Devon
5   West Lindsey
6   Wiltshire UA
7   Weymouth and Portland
8   Isle of Wight UA
9   Oadby and Wigston
10   North Somerset UA
   
These are districts I'd expect wizardy weirdos to live in.

‘Heathen’
1   Isles of Scilly UA
2   Rossendale
3   Monmouthshire
4   South Hams
5   Lancaster
6   Eastbourne
7   Ceredigion
8   Winchester
9   Swindon UA
10   Newark and Sherwood
   
‘Ditto' (I hate that term).

‘Pagan’
1   Mendip
2   Ceredigion
3   Weymouth and Portland
4   Cornwall UA
5   Hastings
6   Isle of Wight UA
7   Forest of Dean
8   Torridge
9   West Devon
10   Brighton and Hove UA

‘Ditto’ again (I hate myself).

‘Own Belief System’
1   Isles of Scilly UA
2   Ceredigion
3   City of London
4   Adur
5   Norwich
6   Brighton and Hove UA
7   South Hams
8   Merthyr Tydfil
9   Hastings
10   Cambridge
   
This one seems to be a mixture of smug urbanites and desperately isolated people

‘Satanism’
1   Bolsover
2   Exeter
3   Fylde
4   North Dorset
5   Pendle
6   Sedgemoor
7   Bournemouth UA
8   Hastings
9   Torfaen
10   West Somerset
   
I have no idea why Bolsover is number one.

‘Scientology’
1   Mid Sussex
2   Wealden
3   Rother
4   Tandridge
5   Poole UA
6   Crawley
7   Hammersmith and Fulham
8   City of London
9   Brighton and Hove UA
10   Plymouth UA
   
Seriously, as someone who lives in Sussex, I'm surrounded by pr**ks..

‘Wicca’
1   Gosport
2   Lincoln
3   Thanet
4   Worthing
5   Ceredigion
6   North Warwickshire
7   Rushmoor
8   North Dorset
9   Forest Heath
10   Fenland
   
I'm guessing Goth kids living in generally boring areas..

‘Witchcraft’
1   Mendip
2   Ceredigion
3   Lewes
4   North Norfolk
5   North Lincolnshire UA
6   Boston
7   Taunton Deane
8   South Holland
9   Suffolk Coastal
10   Uttlesford

See the other witchy/wizardly religions..   

'Free thinker'
1   Waveney
2   Windsor and Maidenhead UA
3   North West Leicestershire
4   North Devon
5   Eastbourne
6   Bolton
7   Fylde
8   Horsham
9   Darlington UA
10   Runnymede
   
I was expecting more bourgeois-bohemian areas but I was wrong. The fact that I was wrong suggests that these people truly are free thinkers, with minds completely uninhibited by superstitions and biases inflicted upon them by the opinions of any other person anywhere on earth.

‘Heavy Metal’
1   Norwich
2   Tameside
3   Bolton
4   Brighton and Hove UA
5   North West Leicestershire
6   Salford
7   Trafford
8   Manchester
9   Copeland
10   Oadby and Wigston
   
I'm guessing the people in the southern districts who described themselves as 'Heavy Metal' were joking and those in the northern ones around Greater Manchester are genuinely terrifying/cool.  Well probably not, they're probably students as well.

‘Humanist’
1   South Hams
2   West Devon
3   Cambridge
4   Lewes
5   Brighton and Hove UA
6   West Dorset
7   Stroud
8   Oxford
9   West Somerset
10   Torridge
   
'What do you believe in?'
'I believe in humans.'
'Wow, you're so amazing.'

‘Jedi Knight’
1   Brighton and Hove UA
2   Isles of Scilly UA
3   Norwich
4   Adur
5   Southampton UA
6   Portsmouth UA
7   Bournemouth UA
8   Hastings
9   Isle of Wight UA
10   Bristol, City of UA
   
OMG I <3 living in Brighton it's got such an unique/alternative/individual(istic) vibe!  Although seriously, I did love the Star Wars films when I was a child.  This was because I was a child..  I was a child..

‘Realist’
1   St Albans
2   Worcester
3   Reading UA
4   Taunton Deane
5   Brighton and Hove UA
6   Tendring
7   Blaenau Gwent
8   Mid Sussex
9   Derbyshire Dales
10   Mendip
   
St Albans is SO realist.  You get a really realistic perspective of the universe and all life within it from St Albans.  If you want a realistic answer to all the great questions, look no further than St Albans.  St Albans elected a Lib Dem council for a while, but now it has a Conservative one. It was the was the realistic thing to do.

I'm concerned that this map may invite some of the less insightful comments on this thread (from people who otherwise wouldn't otherwise have commented on this thread at all, of course).

To save time I'm going to computer generate these maps.. Now for some religion ones.

Christians

He's a ledge!