Local Election Maps

[You kip if you want to...]

How a seat with an MP like Phil Davies has a Green councillor, i'll never guess.

[Leftbehind]

Queensbury being only one of three wards that elected the far-right in 2011 that I've came across so far. Still, more than can be said for the far-left, sadly.

[Vasall des Midas]

You really need to see it in isolation to notice how odd the boundaries are.

[Sibboleth]

The Queensbury BNP councillors (who are a married couple) have since left the party and have been signing Conservative nomination forms.

How a seat with an MP like Phil Davies has a Green councillor, i'll never guess.

That's because Shipley is not like the rest of the seat. It's really quite bohemian in its way (includes Saltaire and so on). Places like Bingley and Denholme are... er... not.

The very un-bohemian Denholme is, of course, not to be confused with the actor Denholm Elliott who most certainly was.

[Die-hard Clockworkfan]

Calderdale 2011.  This was a wrong winner result; the seats split C 8 Lab 7 LD 2 but the shares of the vote were Lab 35.2 C 32.5 LD 18.0.  Changes based on 2007:

C gain from LD
Elland
Skircoat

Lab gain from C
Sowerby Bridge

Lab gain from LD
Calder
Todmorden

2010 map:


2011 map:


Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):


Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Brighouse is 2C/1Ind and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Calder is 2LD/1Lab and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Elland is 2LD/1C and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Hipperholme and Lightcliffe is 2C/1Ind and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Illingworth and Mixenden is 2Lab/1BNP and the BNP are defending in May.
Luddendenfoot is 2LD/1C and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Park is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Skircoat is 2LD/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Sowerby Bridge is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Todmorden is a three-way split C/Lab/LD and the Conservatives are defending in May.

[Sibboleth]

The word 'bohemian' was mentioned and, right on cue, Hebden Bridge!

[Die-hard Clockworkfan]

Kirklees 2011.  Changes based on 2007:

C gain from LD
Colne Valley
Lindley

Ind gain from LD
Holme Valley North

Lab gain from LD
Dalton
Dewsbury West
Golcar

2010 map:


2011 map:


Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):


Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Colne Valley is 2LD/1C and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Dalton is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Dewsbury South is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Dewsbury West is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Golcar is 2LD/1Lab and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Holme Valley North is 2Ind/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Kirkburton is 2C/1Grn and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Lindley is 2LD/1C and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.

[Sibboleth]

Harold Wilson grew up in what's now Golcar ward.

[Die-hard Clockworkfan]

Leeds 2011.  Changes based on 2007:

C gain from LD
Horsforth

Lab gain from C
Roundhay

Lab gain from LD
Burmantofts and Richmond Hill
Headingley
Hyde Park and Woodhouse
Moortown
Rothwell

Lab gain from Morley Borough Inds
Morley South

2010 map:


2011 map:


Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):


Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Burmantofts and Richmond Hill is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Farnley and Worley is 2Grn/1Lab and the Greens are defending in May.
Gipton and Harehills is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Headingley is 2LD/1Lab and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Horsforth is 2LD/1C and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Hyde Park and Woodhouse is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Moortown is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Morley South is 2Morley/1Lab and the Morley Borough Independents are defending in May.
Rothwell is 2LD/1Lab and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Roundhay is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Temple Newsam is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.

[Leftbehind]

You're spoiling us.

Also, you've linked to Kirklees.

[Die-hard Clockworkfan]

Fixed.

I have a target of getting the 2010/2011 Mets finished on the 25th of April, which is a date of some significance to me.  I am not sure whether this will happen.

[Die-hard Clockworkfan]

Target hit  

Completing the Mets 2010/2011 series, Wakefield 2011.  Changes based on 2007:

C gain from LD
Ossett

Lab gain from C
Horbury and South Ossett
Pontefract South
Wrenthorpe and Outwood West

Lab gain from Ind
Featherstone
South Elmsall and South Kirkby

2010 map:


2011 map:


Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):


Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Crofton, Ryhill and Walton is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Featherstone is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is defending in May.
Hemsworth is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is defending in May.
Horbury and South Ossett is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Pontefract North is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Pontefract South is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
South Elmsall and South Kirkby is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is defending in May.
Stanley and Outwood East is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Wrenthorpe and Outwood West is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.

I shall now be taking a break from the maps until after the May elections.

[Leftbehind]

If not for Wakefield Rural, it'd be teetering close to a one-party state.

[Leftbehind]

East:


I too have my own target for getting these finished: the 3rd May - if I fail to get them finished they'd undoubtedly take a back seat to collating the 2012 results and I wouldn't know when I'd get them complete.

[joevsimp]

East:

I too have my own target for getting these finished: the 3rd May - if I fail to get them finished they'd undoubtedly take a back seat to collating the 2012 results and I wouldn't know when I'd get them complete.

very nice

is that a split green/tory ward just south of King's Lynn or are my eyes/monitor playing tricks

[Pilchard]

East:

Nice! There's a small detatched part of Milton ward just to the north east of Cambridge that hasn't been coloured in though, always catches me out

is that a split green/tory ward just south of King's Lynn or are my eyes/monitor playing tricks

That seems to be Airfield ward (probably named after RAF Marham) in King's Lynn and West Norfolk. I can see a couple of other split Green/Tory wards, Elmswell and Norton in Mid Suffolk and Beccles North in Waveney.

[Leftbehind]

I'd have never have noticed that in a million years - thanks. Fixed.

There's also a Green/Tory in St Albans (St Peters), but it's difficult to see given the size of the ward.

[Leftbehind]

S/E:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/South_East_England_wards_2011_map_coloured.svg/1279px-South_East_England_wards_2011_map_coloured.svg.png

(edited by the Boardbashi: bit of a table breaker, there. Great map though and worth clicking on the link)

[afleitch]

Looking at the damage in Scotland

Up first the Tories who must be on their knees that we have STV to thank for not being slaughter.

2007:



2012:



The darkest colour is 3 wards, the middle colour is 2 and the lightest is 1.

Worth noting a success and a failure. Two successes are Aberdeenshire where the Conservatives gained from the Lib Dem collapse. A second is Edinburgh, where they Tories held even. South Ayrshire too was not a disaster.

Two failures; locally the Conservatives suffered in South Lanarkshire. However what is noticable is the poor result in East Dumbartonshire; not one councillor was returned in Bearsden.

[Sibboleth]

That (Bearsden) is a shock, yeah. Who benefited?

[afleitch]

That (Bearsden) is a shock, yeah. Who benefited?

SNP. The Lib Dems held on. Speaking of which

Liberal Democrats



And now in 2012...



So bad news bears for the Lib Dems. Slaughtered in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Their sparse representation in the West of Scotland is also reduced.

[Sibboleth]

In the case of Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire actually winning no seats where they won two last time...

...anyways, St Andrews also stands out.

[Vasall des Midas]

In the case of Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire actually winning no seats where they won two last time...

...anyways, St Andrews also stands out.

The Party of NE Fife Interests?

[Sibboleth]

Right click for a proper sized image. Outline map nicked from someone believed to be residing somewhere in the western outskirts of Bolton. Errors possible, etc.

Anyways. A key would be an idea, wouldn't it?

Red = Labour, Grey = Independent, Green = Plaid, Blue = Tory, Yellow = LibDem.

So far, so simple.

Dark Grey = no election, that other Green = Llais (and a Plaid breakaway near Llanelli that I've trollishly given the same colour - they only won a single ward, shared with Labour), Purple = UKIP (only two of those; one in Merthyr - an incumbent originally elected as an Independent - and one in the Vale of Glamorgan), Pink = Continuity SDP (just a single councillor this time, again in Port Talbot). I think that's all.

Anyways, I can explain most things.

[Leftbehind]

Excellent.