London Maps

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Various maps (and other stuff) to do with London (demographics, elections and so on) will be posted in this thread.

To start with, a sort of borough regions map:

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Percentage of council seats held by each major party:

All London: Con 42.1, Lab 36.6, LDem 17.1
LCC: Lab 42.9, Con 35.6, LDem 17.7
Essex: Lab 48.1, Con 29.3, LDem 10.5
North London: Con 40.1, Lab 39.7, LDem 20.2
West London: Con 54.1, Lab 36.6, LDem 5.1
S.W: LDem 43.0, Con 42.1, Lab 13.4
Croydon & Kentish: Con 75.6, Lab 20.7, LDem 3.6

Shaded maps soon

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And here they are:

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These maps (at borough level) are based on a socio-economic classification done by the ONS. I've grouped ten into five groups of two.



St. is student, btw. The others are in descending order of social "importance" (if that's the best word to use).

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How does one Define a "I", "II", "III", "IV", "V" Class type of person anyway....

By type of employment. They are made up of the following NS-SEC groups:

I: Higher Managerial and Higher Professional (ie; upper middle class)
II: Lower '' '' and Intermediate (ie; the Daily Mail reading classes)
III: Small Employers & Own Account Workers and Lower Supervisory & Technical (what it says on the tin really)
IV: Routine/Semi-Routine (class blue collar occupations and so on... mostly anyway...)
V: Never Worked and Long Term Unemployed

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Occupation Groups by borough:

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Religion:



I probably won't bother doing ward-level maps of three of these (Christian, Buddhist, Other) for a couple of reasons. At least not for a while. Ditto some others in some areas; not much point doing Sikhs in North London for example.

As for colours, some were obvious, some made sense after thinking about things for a little (Christian for example; thinking of the Last Supper and so on) some were more random.

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What's the area shaded 30% for Muslims, Al?

Tower Hamlets

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It's archaic; Jews started to move out of Stepney in the '30's (for obvious reasons...) and also after the War. There are still little pockets here and there though.

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Not sure, but probably ones strongest in India.

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Ethnic groups and so on now:

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Not sure, but probably ones strongest in India.

No Jedi?

ONS counted "Jedi" as being part of No Religion

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Housing Tenure:

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Religion by ward for the old LCC area:



Bigger map & Sources here

Some notes about the map will be online soon-ish.

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Oh, yes... one other thing. It's likely that the Jewish pattern is a little misleading in areas with a lot of Secular Jews (and West London isn't one of those areas; I'd intended to add this note with the previous set of maps but forgot) for obvious reasons.

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And here be North London:



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Yeah, I know I said I wouldn't bother doing Sikhs in North London. But there are just enough in Brent/Harrow for a map to be made.

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South London:

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...and Essex London:



bigger version is here... of course

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Any maps of the 2005 general election in London?

A lot of election maps will be up here at some point (going back quite a long way), but here's a little one for now:



Map shows % majority; the pink/light blue/light yellow is for majorities under 5%, everything works up from there.

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% with no qualifications:



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Results of the 2006 elections by ward:



For a bigger map (and an important note about the key used) go the Gallery.

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Have New River and Springfield wards ever been that far apart electorally? Weird. And o/c the Tower Hamlets results are an interesting reminder as to how much voting patterns there have changed (again!) over the past few years.

I think that the GLA did a book or booklet of the results at ward level; probably quite expensive, but I might see if it's still available (it should be but you never know...)

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It might be because the Orthodox Jewish population are more likely to turn out and/or vote Tory in council elections.. 

It's a bit of both IIRC (mainly so they can get people that they, more or less, electorally own on certain council committees). And in one ward (Cazenove) replace "Tory" with "LibDem". Still don't get why those two wards (which are the core Stamford Hill wards) would vote opposite ways though; they didn't in the Mayoral election.

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Yes. Reminds me of a list I made.

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South London:

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North London:



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West London:

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Inner London now:



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