UK General Election - May 7th 2015 (The Official Campaign Thread)

[ilikeverin]

Lib Dems 94%
Labour 93%
Green 89%
SNP 89%
Plaid Cymru 81%
Sinn Féin 79%
Conservatives 67%
UKIP 36%
BNP 24%
DUP 12%

Scrolling around the heatmap of the UK, it's telling me that I have political positions like a typical voter in Hackney, Greenwich, Streatham, Gravesend, Brighton-Pavilion, Bristol North West, Sheffield Hallam, or basically half of Scotland.  These results in general kosher pretty well with my suspicion that had I grown up in a relatively comparable situation in the UK, I'd probably be a disaffected Lib Dem at this point in time.

[ilikeverin]

The "closest constituency" thing often seems to do what's geographically closest.  I also "got" St. Ives, but that's presumably because St. Ives is the closest constituency to Maryland.  The heatmap showed that St. Ives was only middlingly close to me politically, and the constituencies I noted looked reddest on the map (although there was no way to look at the "best" one that I saw).