Random international maps thread

[Hashemite]

the election in 2009, where the center-left coalition won re-election. Blue of course is center-right, red is center-left.

Don't steal my maps without asking for my permission.

[Hans-im-Glück]

The most part of the Sudetenland was very poor. Near the border to Bavaria and Saxony it was very heavily industrialized. 1920 the SPD was the strongest party, but the right Parties were very fragmented. When you count them together they are stronger than the SPD.

1935 the people in the Sudetenland had only the choice between "back to Germany" and work together with the Czechs. That means Henlein's SDP and the SPD. For me it is no surprise that 80% of the Gemans want back to Germany and voted for the SDP. The Czech government has done everything in the twenties that the Germans disliked them. For example: they build big schools for Czech kids in cities where no Czech people live or they have sent officials ,who spoke only Czech, in villages where lived 100% Germans.

Parties who want a pragmatic handling with the Czechs had it very difficult. After 1933 the Henlein Party get so much money from the Nazi, then the other parties had no chance.

[Gloucestrian]

Don't steal my maps without asking for my permission.

Fine I'll make my own. Don't snap completely please.

[dialectical fetishist]

A very united Sweden votes Thanks, But No Thanks to the Euro in 2003, and prove that we are indeed the second most Euroscheptic country in the Union.

Woah, nice.

Britain would probably have about one constituency for the euro

[Vasall des Midas]

There's A LOT of people in the green bits (though not enough to win this thing or make it ultraclose).

[afleitch]

Took ages

[Sibboleth]

Are those the pre-1974 local government boundaries?

[afleitch]

Are those the pre-1974 local government boundaries?

Mid 50's. I'm wading through the archives to get the changes from then on until 1974; nothing major except for the New Towns.

[Hashemite]

1925 now:



RSZML (Czech agrarian) 13.66%
KSC (Communist) 12.86%
CSL (Czech Christiandems) 9.73%
CSDSD (Czech socialists) 8.88%
CSNS (Czech nationalists) 8.58%
BdL (German agrarians) 8.03%
Slovaks (PZLR?) 6.88%
DSDAP (German socialists) 5.78%
DCVP (German Christiandems) 4.43%
Czech Middle-class party 4.02%
CND (Czech liberals) 4.01%
DNP (German nationalists) 3.39%
DNSAP (Nazis) 2.37%

DFSP is the "German Free Social Party" and I can't find what this CSSaKT is.

[Die-hard Clockworkfan]

A very united Sweden votes Thanks, But No Thanks to the Euro in 2003, and prove that we are indeed the second most Euroscheptic country in the Union.

Woah, nice.

Britain would probably have about one constituency for the euro

Which one?

[Verily]

A very united Sweden votes Thanks, But No Thanks to the Euro in 2003, and prove that we are indeed the second most Euroscheptic country in the Union.

Woah, nice.

Britain would probably have about one constituency for the euro

Which one?

Something in SW London, probably more than one. Richmond Park, Twickenham, etc. Also Hampstead and Kilburn, Hornsey and Wood Green.

Also a significant chunk of Scotland, including most or all SNP-held seats and maybe some of the rural LD ones.

[Vasall des Midas]

What about the Fenian parts of Ulster?

[doktorb]

Any British vote on the euro would be more a referendum on the Government of the day, and with the media being entirely anti-euro, it wouldn't be a fair vote anyway.

[Verily]

What about the Fenian parts of Ulster?

Them, too, forgot about NI. Also maybe some wealthy areas on the edge of other cities, like Sheffield Hallam. What is Plaid's attitude re: Europe?

[Vasall des Midas]

They're for it. But don't seem to have a position on the Euro, as far as I can tell.

Actually, the manifesto (one para. of a chapter entitled "think global" or somesuch crap) reads

"Plaid Cymru is committed to an independent Wales as a full member of the European Union. We will continue to support further democratic reform of the EU. We are committed to increased representation for Wales in the EU. This includes a fair number of MEPs for Wales, a European Parliament office in Wales, a rotating European Commissioner and most importantly, a vote for Wales in the Council of Ministers. As a welcoming nation, Plaid Cymru recognises the invaluable contribution that migrants have made to Wales. Our civic nationalism celebrates tolerance, mutual understanding and difference. We condemn the point-scoring used by other parties and the pandering to unfounded xenophobic prejudices in the debate on immigration. Plaid Cymru also supports the right of asylum seekers to work in the UK while they wait for status decisions to be made and we call for the speeding up of the unnecessarily complicated asylum system. We condemn the practice of housing recently-arrived asylum seekers, especially children, in "detention" or "removal" centres as punitive and cruel."

The first sentence being odd since Plaid isn't, actually, you know, committed to an independent Wales in the common sense of the word.

[Die-hard Clockworkfan]

Britain would probably have about one constituency for the euro

Which one?

Something in SW London, probably more than one. Richmond Park, Twickenham, etc. Also Hampstead and Kilburn, Hornsey and Wood Green.

Also a significant chunk of Scotland, including most or all SNP-held seats and maybe some of the rural LD ones.

The Guardianista seats in London I might give you, but definitely not the rural Lib Dem areas, which they win by running to the right of Labour.  For example, UKIP gets some of its best scores in Cornwall, where the Lib Dems had all five seats before May.

[Verily]

Britain would probably have about one constituency for the euro

Which one?

Something in SW London, probably more than one. Richmond Park, Twickenham, etc. Also Hampstead and Kilburn, Hornsey and Wood Green.

Also a significant chunk of Scotland, including most or all SNP-held seats and maybe some of the rural LD ones.

The Guardianista seats in London I might give you, but definitely not the rural Lib Dem areas, which they win by running to the right of Labour.  For example, UKIP gets some of its best scores in Cornwall, where the Lib Dems had all five seats before May.

I meant the rural LD seats in Scotland, many of which are sympathetic to Scottish independence and the euro, although I see how that was not clear from context.

[YL]

What about the Fenian parts of Ulster?

Them, too, forgot about NI. Also maybe some wealthy areas on the edge of other cities, like Sheffield Hallam. What is Plaid's attitude re: Europe?

Not sure, but I think it might actually have a better chance in Sheffield Central (and similar types of constituency) than in Hallam.  I suspect it would struggle everywhere in England at the moment, though: the Greek crisis did not help the image of the Euro here, and as doktorb said the media are ridiculously anti-EU.

[Hashemite]

Some Spanish maps if anybody cares:

[Χahar]

Dominican Republic, 1986



Data is here (explanation here). The database it comes from is this one; I don't know if you folks have seen it before, but there's a lot of good stuff there.

[Shilly]

Don't know where else to put this, but here is hopefully the first in a series on the recent regional council elections in the Czech Republic. Most notably, the Communists got 23% nationwide, needless to say a very strong result.

This first map is of Central Bohemia.

[I Am Damo Suzuki]

Wow, this is fantastic. I've read that the turnout was very low (as usual, I think). Did the commies improve very much if we talk about number of votes? Or it was that the other parties suffered a great voter desertion? 

[Shilly]

Turnout dropped only slightly compared to the last round of regional elections in '08, so the communists made significant gains in both percentage and raw vote total if you look at it that way.

[Leftbehind]

Amazing map, Shilly. The Czech Left's success had passed me by, so thanks if only for that!

[I Am Damo Suzuki]

For the record, the map is fantastic. Not necessarily happy or sad about the outcome of the Czech commies. Just curious.