The general patterns are very familiar. The details seem strangely distant, but only just out of reach, or perhaps as seen through mist. 1955
The mist seems particularly thick in mainland Scotland north of the Central Belt, Liverpool, rural Norfolk, and Doncaster. It also seems strange from an early 21st century perspective not to have a single splash of yellow in the English countryside.
The two Tory seats in Sheffield would both have been Lib Dem on those boundaries in 2010. Indeed the Boundary Commission's proposed boundary between West & Penistone and South-West has a certain retro flavour.
