Homely's UK Maps Thread

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Other contributors are more than welcome to submit maps or graphics. 'Twas about time we started another thread for this sort of thing.

First, a fairly substantial contribution, if I may say so myself:

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These are the 15 English wards with the highest Muslim population:

Rank	% Muslim	Ward	City
1	85.3%	BASTWELL	Blackburn
2	77.7%	SHEAR BROW	Blackburn
3	77.3%	WASHWOOD HEATH	Birmingham
4	76.3%	DANESHOUSE WITH STONEYHULME	Burnley
5	76.1%	TOLLER	Bradford
6	75.0%	MANNINGHAM	Bradford
7	73.9%	BORDESLEY GREEN	Birmingham
8	72.8%	BRADFORD MOOR	Bradford
9	70.2%	SPARKBROOK	Birmingham
10	69.8%	WHITEFIELD	Pendle
11	69.6%	SPINNEY HILLS	Leicester
12	68.9%	AUDLEY	Blackburn
13	68.2%	WERNETH	Oldham
14	67.1%	MILKSTONE AND DEEPLISH	Rochdale
15	64.7%	PARK	Halifax

The highest Muslim population in a Greater London ward is 50.4% - Green Street West in Newham - and comes in at no. 36 on the list for the whole of England.

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Surprised. I expected a Tower Hamlets ward up there.

Tower Hamlets' most heavily Muslim ward (St Dunstans and Stepney Green, 48.7% Muslim) is only no. 41 on the list. Your surprise is due to the fact that even though Tower Hamlets' Muslim population is almost twice that of Bradford's (in percentage terms), Bradford's Muslims are heavily concentrated in a few central-city wards, while the (mostly Bangladeshi) population of Tower Hamlets is spread relatively evenly throughout the borough. Due to white flight and the legacy of post-industrialism, many Northern cities have huge racial, religious and linguistic disparities between homogeneous populations living in very close proximity to each other.

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Interesting. I thought Croydon (London) would be more Muslim. Nonetheless very very interesting! can we have one with people with no religious belief as well?

Ah, requests! I'd be happy to fill that one.

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I decided to put together a new series of maps based on the Boothroyd/Sibboleth/afleitch UK Westminster Constituencies basemap - but I wanted a white background. And I wanted a proper geographic representation of Orkney and Shetland.

So, I painstakingly modified the original basemaps, built myself a little database of the results from 1983 to 2010 (which took three months by itself), and refilled in the maps constituency-by-constituency. The result is spectacular!



I have similar GIFs almost ready for direct C-LD, C-L and L-LD comparisons over the same time period. After that, maybe I'll do minor parties, swings, who knows.

*I use yellow both for the Liberal Democrats and SDP-Liberal Alliance so as to compare 1983-1987 more clearly with 1992-2010.
 
†When you fill in a 650-constituency map with dozens of colors and then do it 28 more times, mistakes are inevitable. Apologies in advance.

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Here is a direct comparison between Labour and Conservative:

I'm rather ignorant about such things - how does one make an image like that that flips through each election? I've made similar maps showing party vote & swing, and would like to be able to make something like that out of them.

That's a .gif image composite. Try experimenting with one of the many .gif wizards on the Internet - they're more fun than a barrel of Vikings!

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Conservatives vs Liberals:

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It's back, bitches!



This map indicates the portions of England under which the fires of Hell burn most strongly...

Unsurprisingly, the least irreligious wards are heavily populated by Muslims or Hindus. The five most irreligious wards are all in Brighton and Hove. St Peters and North Laine ward is the most godless in all of England - 55.7% of the adult population professes to have no religion.