Local Election Maps

[Leftbehind]

Forgot to say good job on the Salford map...and how much it resembles a flock of birds.

Also, I'm not ashamed to admit I do look forward to your daily (or around that) map, Andrew. One of the main reasons I checked their frequently - it certainly wasn't the chat which I couldn't participate in because the Admin never bloody accepted my numerous attempts to register.

[Leftbehind]

Actually your Sheffield map is worth posting just to see the changes from '07

2007


2011


Given Stannington was six votes away from turning red, it could've been even more dramatic.

As for the wrong-winners, it could've been a lot worse - it looks like the elections where the Liberals gained more votes than Labour corresponded almost exactly (1998 being the exception) with their control of the council.

[Leftbehind]

Until 2008 in Dore & Totley, but they hadn't had one elected since 2004. Last year they were less than 800 votes off fourth place in city-wide vote totals (behind the Greens).

Good stuff, YL.

[Leftbehind]

The elections were null and void because a candidate died near the polling date.

As for Tories being elected in Tyne & Wear, you need only look to North Tyneside for a sizeable Tory presence - they won short-lived control of it in 2008, and as of 2011 stand:

Lab 35 seats (+6)
Con 19 (-5)
Lib 6 (-1)

Unless you mean MPs, in which case, no - not AFAIK. Not since 92 (Tynemouth), I think.

Newcastle: 2007 > 2011 > 2011 post byelections.

[Leftbehind]

North Tyneside is the next map, although it does have an elected Mayor who ISTR is Tory at the moment.

Look forward to it.

Somebody please do this for Stoke-on-Trent in the last few years.

I can see why you wanted one! Also lol'd at Fenton.

[Leftbehind]

Seems the Tories weren't far from losing all but Bartley Green (safe as houses) of their wards in the lower half.

Good to hear you're starting the West Mids, Andrew. It's nice comparing your N/E & N/W maps to their 2007 counterparts.

[Leftbehind]

You've linked to Dudley, rather than Sandwell. A mere hundred odd votes away from a whitewash.

[Leftbehind]

The maps are of the election results; you won't see any defections included in these maps unless they're re-elected under their new party (ie Middlesbrough's Park ward) and then it's not really showing a defection.

[Leftbehind]

You're right; this article suggests it should be:

Shirley West is 1Lab/1Grn/1Con and the Greens are defending in May.

[Leftbehind]

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[Leftbehind]

Maps of the UK regions by ward on 2011 boundaries have been uploaded on wiki, enabling this:

[Leftbehind]

Ratepayer for the Handforth ward in Cheshire East. There's also two wards in Fylde with Ratepayers which are harder to make out because they're striped/mixed representation.

[Leftbehind]

Yorkshire & The Humber.

[Leftbehind]

Same - your recent maps have made things a lot easier for me, and been using your old maps to make sure those white wards are meant to be so!

West Mids:


Pink - Kidderminster Hospital & Health Concern
Turquoise - Moorlands Democratic Alliance, formerly Ratepayers.  

Note - the first UKIP that I've came across (the purple in York&Hum is SDP) - difficult to see in Staff. Moorlands just above the clear MDA wards as 2 Lab:1 UKIP representation in Leek North.  

[Leftbehind]

[img]http://Yorkshire & The Humber.

Nice, but you've switched Ecclesall and East Ecclesfield.

For F's sake, I had fixed that, but it seems only in one window - which the other with the fault in quickly overridden. Thanks for letting me know; fixed it.

Maps of the UK regions by ward on 2011 boundaries have been uploaded on wiki, enabling this:

Link? These seem pretty good.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Nilfanion&offset=20120405115850&target=Nilfanion

I'll have to correct myself, they're English regions by ward on 2011 boundaries - he's answered a request for them, so unless you ask him for Scotland I don't think he'll do them.

[Leftbehind]

Nice.

East Midlands:

[Leftbehind]

Yep, fixed. Good spot. Think I ended up flicking from multiple sources for Preston as the official results page has errors (notably a far-right England First candidate apparently winning a landslide in one ward - actually a duplicate of another ward's figures - could've been more), so that didn't help matters.

[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.

[Leftbehind]

You're spoiling us.

Also, you've linked to Kirklees.

[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.

[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)

[Leftbehind]

Excellent.

[Leftbehind]

Brilliant.