Talk Elections

Decided to make a thread for these. Note that this isn't country specific; maps of municipal elections from countries outside the U.K would be more than welcome :)

Anyway, the follow maps show the AV %'s for all four parties will seats on Cardiff City Council in 2004:

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Note that Labour did unusually badly and the LibDems unusually well in those elections (for reasons mainly involving the then Labour leader of the council). The patterns are interesting anway.

Might as well throw my Brighton and Hove 2007 ones in here :)

Leading party:
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Tories:
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Labour:
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Greens:
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Lib Dems:
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I have a few Saint Malo region maps I can throw in soon enough.

I had posted this in the gallery a few weeks ago:

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May I ask our British members where they find their editable local England maps? I'm quite interested by doing some :)

Depends. I've got most of mine of the ONS. Send me a PM with areas you're interested in.

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A map showing the largest party in each of the 22 councils in Wales following the 2004 local elections. I also have a map showing the wards for Ceredigion but will need to figure out what to do about the two member wards in Penparcau and Lampeter.

With split wards the best thing to do is stripes IMO. Or you could just do a poll-toppers (or leading AV party) map.

And here's a map showing which party polled the most votes in each council area in 2004 (note that Labour polled the most votes in Cardiff and Flintshire, but were not the largest party. The same goes for Plaid in Ceredigion)

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AV maps for Rhondda-Cynon-Taff (2004).

Spot the Rhondda Fach!

Merthyr now:

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Local politics in Merthyr is somewhat insane and is dominated by Labour and various (at least three IIRC) groups of Independent Labour types.

When you get to Ceredigion, would you be so kind as to send me a blank ward map?

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Do you have ward-level results of Torono Mayoral elections? I've been looking for those for years.

(nice maps, as always, btw).

Question about that Ottawa map thee posted a while ago; what's the green area in the sea of blue in the west of the map?

That's Kanata. Munter was a regional councillor and Kanata city councillor there and was very popular, despite being so left wing and gay. (Kanata tends to be your typical right wing suburb)

Toronto ward results are posted on the internet for 2003 and 2006, but unfortunately I couldn't find anything from 2000. 2003 doesn't show the totals, so I didn't bother with the percentages on the map.

http://www.toronto.ca/vote2006/results/index.htm
http://www.toronto.ca/vote2003/results/index.htm

My next map:

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Notice how Christopherson's endorsenment of Eisenberg in 2006 helped him win areas a Conservative wouldn't normally win.

Does anybody know where I could get some detailed results of the Québec municipal elections in 2005?

How detailed?

I've only been able to find polly by poll results from Quebec City

http://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/fr/organisation/election/index.shtml

although, I've only checked Montreal and Gatineau in addition. You might want to browse this site: http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/municipales2005/index-en.html#2

2002:

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2006:

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Lokale partijen = local parties, usually (but not always) independents. Traditionally strong in the South (Noord-Brabant, Limburg) where the Catholic Party KVP in most municipalities reached somewhere between 80-100% in the national elections until about 1970. In their strongholds, the KVP usually didn't contest local elections. Instead, different groups of (Catholic) independents ran against each other. The last 20 years, local parties were founded in most municipalities in the Netherlands, with increasing success in the elections.

Overige partijen (2002) is the New Communist Party, in North East Groningen.

Geen verkiezingen = No elections, due to municipal redistricting the elections were either postponed to later that year, or were held 1 or 2 years before.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/6968966.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/6968966.stm)
Campaign to reinstate Eskdale ward in Dumfries and Galloway council.

A new interest for me. I've always been quite interested in the history of the European far-right for some reason :P

2007 locals

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Looking forward to comments from our UK friends

2006 locals

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Nice, but the BNP should be in brown.

(btw, I'll be moving this thread into an older thread for local election maps. At some point. Done!)

Using this key:

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BNP vote in Burnley, 2007

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Lib Dem vote in Burnley, 2007

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BTW, the 2007 vote totals for all wards in Burnley as a whole was
LIBDEM 32.58%
LAB 29.95%
BNP 16.5%
CON 15.51%
EFP (BNP mini-me IIRC) 3%
Indies 2.13%
Greenies 0.33%

Sheffield election results in 2007; geographic divide fun! Done by winning party. This was only 1/3 of the council, which is narrowly divided thus:

Labour: 41
Lib Dem: 39
Green: 2
Conservative: 1
Independent: 1

Unless things go badly wrong for the Lib Dems, they will probably gain control in 2008; Labour lost overall control in 2007 (as the ward map should make obvious).

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Lancaster 2007

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Lab 14 (-6)- 26%
Con 12 (+1)- 30%
Greens 12 (+5)- 18%
Morecambe Bay Independents 12 (+1)- 13%
Lib Dems 5 (-3)- 8%
Independents 5 (+1)- 4%
UKIP 0 (=)- 1%

Done by leading party, each box represents one seat.

And Sheffield Council's current composition. Note that two wards change from Lib Dem to Labour; this is because the Lib Dems won one seat in those wards in 2007 but the other two seats are held by Labour. (Extra boxes indicate parties with a single seat in split wards.)

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Based on that then, what's the chance of this new Lancaster and Wyre seat going Conservative at the next election (i.e will those local Greens switch back to Lab at a general election?)

A lot will (a lot of ticket splitting goes on in Lancaster) and working class turnout will be higher.

Al, do you have a specific website with blank (modern) maps of ward boundaries in local authorities? (Or anyone else, really, but I expect Al is the most likely.)

There's the boundary commision's website; but the maps are rather large and various stuff can get in the way. I do have quite a lot of blank ward maps from various places though; PM me with local authorites you're interested in.

I'm about 75% the way through a detailed MM ward map of Scotland. It should also help with the  Commission reporting in a moths time.

I was specifically interested in Bradford to do a sort of "rise and fall of the BNP" there.

Yep:

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Thanks :)

Reactivating a relevant old thread rather than starting a new one.  I've been posting these maps for years on the Vote UK forum, but that got hacked at the beginning of the month (nice birthday present, people) and it's looking increasingly unlikely to be coming back.  Basically these maps signal that bits of my website have been updated.

Barnsley 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/48).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from Barnsley Independent Group (BIG)
Darfield
Hoyland Milton
Kingstone
Old Town
Rockingham

2010 map (BIG in pink):
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2011 map:
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Cartogram (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Darfield is 2Lab/1BIG and BIG are defending in May.
Darton East is 2Lab/1BIG and Labour are defending in May.
Dearne South is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May (however, I think the Lib Dem councillor has defected to Labour).
Hoyland Milton is 2Lab/1BIG and BIG are defending in May.
Kingstone is 2Lab/1BIG and BIG are defending in May.
Monk Bretton is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May.
North East is 2BIG/1Lab and BIG are defending in May.
Old Town is 2Lab/1BIG and BIG are defending in May.
Rockingham is 2Lab/1BIG and BIG are defending in May.
Stairfoot is 2Lab/1BIG and BIG are defending in May.
Worsbrough is 2Lab/1BIG and BIG are defending in May.

Yes, that was slightly on the annoying side as that could be a useful site.

So, anyway, random repostings of 2011 maps...

Birmingham

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Manchester

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Salford

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Telford & Wrekin

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Southampton

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Doncaster

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Bolton

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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.

My version of Doncaster 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/49/) (good work there Al).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from Community Group
Thorne

Lab gain from Ind
Armthorpe
Edlington and Warmsworth

Lab gain from LD
Edenthorpe, Kirk Sandall and Barnby Dun
Mexborough
Town Moor
Wheatley

2010 and 2011 maps:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Armthorpe is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May.
Balby is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May.
Edenthorpe, Kirk Sandall and Barnby Dun is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Edlington and Warmsworth is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May.
Great North Road is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May (although I think the Independent councillor has defected to Labour).
Mexborough is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Rossington is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May.
Thorne is 2Lab/1Community Group and the Community Group are defending in May.
Town Moor is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.

The 2010 and 2011 maps are identical but the shares of the vote were very different: Labour polled 46% in 2011 but only 35% 36% in 2010.  The Liberal Democrats were fifth in share of the vote in 2011 with 7%, behind the combined Independents (12%) and the English Democrats (9%).

The 2010 election had a few strange features: Labour gained Edenthorpe, Kirk Sandall and Barnby Dun with just 24.0% of the vote, which is the lowest winning score I can remember seeing in a UK local election.  The full shares of the vote were Lab 24.0 LD 23.3 C 20.3 EDP 16.2 Ind 16.2, the English Democrats and the defending Independent councillor tying for last place with 1,100 votes each.  Labour also gained Thorne with 27.5% of the vote, the sitting Community Group councillor standing as an independent and coming third with 14.3%; in that ward the Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates were both called John Brown.

Oh. Great.

The almost only thing I was reading on Vote-UK.

Thanks for the thanks :)

The People's Republic of Rotherham 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/50/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from C
Hellaby
Wales

Lab gain from Ind
Maltby

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Anston and Woodsetts is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Brinsworth and Catcliffe is 2Lab/1BNP but the BNP councillor (who would have been up in May) recently got kicked off the council for non-attendance after a bizarre tour of defections between various far-right parties, including joining the National Front and then leaving them on the grounds that he hadn't realised they were a bunch of racists.
Hellaby is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Maltby is 2Lab/1BNP and the BNP are defending in May, although again I think the BNP councillor here is no longer in the BNP.
Wales is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Wickersley is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.

There is two Conservative candidates and no Labour one in Bessacarr & Cantley, Doncaster 2010.

Probably a typo.

Fixed, thanks.  Sometimes I need these things pointing out to me.

thank very much all for those fantastic maps !

Good to see this thread back

Such a shame about Vote UK

Can we start a slow takeover of this forum ;)

I don't think I'll permit any challenges to my dictatorship, so, no.

But I would have absolutely no problem with mass immigration from the collapsed capitalist state of vote2007. We need more Comradely Subjects to till the fields, work in the tractor factories, man the gulags and so on.

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Have you been in communication with Iain? I assumed he was going to be able to restore it from a backup. I'd be gutted if we lost that site - I was right in the middle of posting up my new turnout based electorate maps as well

No, I haven't been in touch with Iain.  He was copied into some Twitter traffic but hasn't responded to it.  I don't really want to prod Iain given that Vote UK isn't exactly work-related, but I might have to soon.

Not far away, the BNP win in Maltby (Rotherham) in 2008 was on 23.1%.  (According to a certain very useful website for past local election results.)

Here are my Sheffield maps from 2last year again:

Sheffield winning party, 2011:
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Lib Dem to Labour swing, 2010 to 2011:
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(Shades are 0 to 4%, 4% to 8%, etc., up to 16% to 20%, using the British definition of "swing")

Vote share maps, 2011:

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(Shades are in increments of 10% for Labour and the Lib Dems and 5% for the Tories and the Greens; the darkest Labour shade is 70% to 80% and the darkest Lib Dem share 40% to 50%.)

I was just going to post my own Sheffield 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/51/) maps...  So instead I'll just do the text:

Lab gain from LD
Broomhill
Crookes
East Ecclesfield
Gleadless Valley
Hillsborough
Nether Edge
Stocksbridge and Upper Don
Walkley
West Ecclesfield

Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Broomhill is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Central is 2Grn/1Lab and the Greens are defending in May.
Crookes is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
East Ecclesfield is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Gleadless Valley is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Hillsborough is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Mosborough is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Nether Edge is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Stocksbridge and Upper Don is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Walkley is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
West Ecclesfield is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.

In close elections (not that we're likely to have one here in the near future) Sheffield has a tendency to produce wrong-winner results.  In 2007 Labour polled most votes and the Lib Dems won most seats, while in 2010 the Lib Dems polled most votes and Labour won most seats.  In 2006 the Lib Dems polled most votes but Labour would have won most seats had it not been for one of the Lib Dem wards being a double election.

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

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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.

Inspired by Leftbehind's post, here's another Sheffield map, this time the LD to Lab swing from 2007 to 2011.  Neither year was a general election year, perhaps making them a bit more comparable, and the same seats were up, so many of the candidates were the same.  The colour scale is the same as on the previous swing map, except that I needed a 20% to 24% shade for Crookes; at the other end of the scale Beauchief & Greenhill was very close to requiring a pale yellow.

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Crookes is mostly from the old Hallam ward, right?

Yes, though a significant part in the east came from Netherthorpe and a smaller area in the north-east from Walkley.

The Council website has pages for each ward with PDF maps which show the old ward boundaries, e.g.
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/your-city-council/elections/ward-boundaries/crookes.html

when was the last time Sheffield had a tory cllr? doesn't look like they'll take dore and totley any time soon

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.

Gateshead 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/52/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from LD
Crawcrook and Greenside
Dunston Hill and Whickham East
Pelaw and Heworth
Ryton, Crookhill and Stella
Winlaton and High Spen

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Birtley is 2Lab/1Lib and the Liberals are defending in May.
Crawcrook and Greenside is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Dunston Hill and Whickham East is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Pelaw and Heworth is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Ryton, Crookhill and Stella is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Winlaton and High Spen is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.

Few things to note:
- before 2010 Gateshead really was a council where nothing happened electorally.  After the 2008 elections all the wards had a full slate of Labour councillors or a full slate of Lib Dem councillors (except Birtley which had one Liberal Party councillor).
- the Lib Dems normally don't stand in Birtley and Lamesley to give the continuing Liberals a run.
- it could have been even worse for the Lib Dems this year as they held Whickham North by just 24 votes.

question : were do you found those maps ?


question 2 : I search maps of roman empire with boundaries of provinces, to make a chronological timeline serie of maps frome the rise of the republic to 476 AD. Does someone could help me to found this map?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Roman_Empire_map-2.gif (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Roman_Empire_map-2.gif)

I draw them myself, based on the Ordnance Survey's file of ward boundaries.

Thanks :)


(even if i had a lot of work to made : painting all provincial borders, buuuu ^^)

You know that you can easily find maps of Roman provinces with a 2-second Google search, right?

yes of course, but they are not, how can I say that... "empty", you know ?
http://wilkenovella.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/provinces-of-roman-empire.jpg

For exemple, this one is colorised, but not with UNIFORMISED COLORS, so, with paint, it's difficult to "whitised" all the provinces cause the colors are not regular

Newcastle upon Tyne 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/53/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from LD
Blakelaw
Denton
Fawdon
Lemington
Newburn
North Heaton
Ouseburn
South Jesmond
Walkergate

2010 map:
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2011 map (Byker was a postponed poll, Westerhope was an abandoned poll):
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Blakelaw is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Denton is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Fawdon is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Fenham is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Lemington is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Newburn is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
North Heaton is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Ouseburn is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
South Jesmond is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Walkergate is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Westerhope is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.

Doesn't using a color threshold in a software solve that problem?

Andrew, two questions? What is an abandonned poll?
Did Tories ever elected someone in the Tyne and Wear in recent times?

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.
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Who doesn't love Walker?

Thanks. I was asking for councillors, which are easier to get than MPs.
Anyways, for MPs, I can check on Wikipedia usually (and I checked, it agrees with you).

But I'm surprised than there is no LibDems MP's from there.

So were the LibDems in 2010 ;D

And 2005 ;D

But LibDem success in local government elections was largely conditional on low turnouts and Labour being in government nationally. Newcastle has had only Labour MPs since 1987: before then there was always at least one Tory (and they always held whichever seat had Jesmond in it).

The circumstances were slightly different.  In Byker a candidate died a week or two before the election so the date of polling was postponed to June.  In Westerhope the Lib Dem candidate died on polling day, so the poll did start but had to be abandoned.


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


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

How do you make the cartograms?

The difference between North Tyneside and Newcastle is that the traditional Municipal Tory redoubt there was large enough to survive the mid 1990s.

A combination of the OS' shapefiles (google OS Boundary Line) and a computer program called ScapeToad (http://scapetoad.choros.ch/).

Look forward to it. :)


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I can see why you wanted one! Also lol'd at Fenton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU).

The correct term is "blank". :)

For Roman Empire stuff, have you tried this page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_Roman_Empire.png) and the links it has down beneath the main map? They seem useable.

One properly showing the unfeasibly large number of defections would be even better ;)

North Tyneside 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/54/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from C
Benton
Collingwood
Killingworth
Monkseaton South
Whitley Bay

Lab gain from LD
Wallsend

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Battle Hill is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May (although I think this seat has gone Labour in a by-election).
Benton is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Collingwood is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Killingworth is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Monkseaton South is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Preston is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Tynemouth is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Wallsend is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Weetslade is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Whitley Bay is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.

Tynemouth and Preston, why the swing to the Tories?

Tynemouth proper has a very strong municipal Tory tradition. Such things only really matter to people who actually vote in local government elections.

thanks !

I would had prefer a blank map with intern borders, but thanks ! I will use this one ;)

South Tyneside 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/55/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from C
Cleadon and East Boldon

Lab gain from LD
Hebburn North

Lab gain from South Tyneside Progressive
West Park

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Beacon and Bents is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May.
Cleadon and East Boldon is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Cleadon Park is 2Lab/1Ind and Labour are defending in May.
Harton is 2Lab/1Progressive and the Progressives are defending in May (although their outgoing councillor - who has been therefore forever - has recently died).
Hebburn North is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Horsley Hill is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May.
Monkton is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May.
West Park is 2Lab/1Progressive and the Progressives are defending in May.
Whiteleas is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May.

Sunderland 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/56/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from C
St Chad's
St Peter's
Washington East
Washington South

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Barnes is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Copt Hill is 2Ind/1Lab and the Independents are defending in May.
Doxford is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Houghton is 2Lab/1Ind and the Independent is up in May.
Millfield is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Ryhope is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
St Chad's is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
St Peter's is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Washington East is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Washington South is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.

It's a shame really that Stoke's gone back to being boring again.

Starting a new West Midlands series, Birmingham 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/57/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from C
Billesley
Brandwood
Harborne
Kings Norton
Longbridge
Quinton

Lab gain from LD
Acocks Green
Hall Green
Hodge Hill
Moseley and Kings Heath
Selly Oak
South Yardley
Springfield

Lab gain from Respect
Sparkbrook

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Acocks Green is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Aston is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Billesley is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Bordesley Green is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Brandwood is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Hall Green is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Harborne is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Kings Norton is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Longbridge is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Moseley and Kings Heath is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Oscott is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Quinton is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Selly Oak is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
South Yardley is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Sparkbrook is 2Respect/1Lab; however Labour already hold the two Respect seats through a by-election gain and a defection.
Springfield is 2LD/1Lab and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Stockland Green is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Tyburn is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.
Washwood Heath is 2Lab/1LD and the Lib Dems are defending in May.

Still find it hilarious that Labour held Edgbaston in 2010.

(Hilarious in a 'haha, Cameron's crap' kinda way.)

Think it's more a statement on Stuart (who is a fantastic local MP, amongst other things) and her campaign workers.

True. I remember watching a video on the Labour and Tory Edgbaston campaigns during the election. The Tory one was poor.

Still, Labour holding it was the moment I first realised that Dave'd be in for a bad night.

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.

Coventry 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/58/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from C
Bablake
Sherbourne
Westwood
Whoberley
Woodlands

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Bablake is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Cheylesmore is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
St Michael's is 2Lab/1SocAlt and the Socialist Alternative (former Labour MP Dave Nellist) are defending in May.
Sherbourne is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Upper Stoke is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Westwood is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Whoberley is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Woodlands is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Wyken is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.

Dudley 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/59/).  Changes based on 2007:

C gain from LD
Kingswinford North and Wall Heath

Lab gain from C
Gornal (by 2 votes)
Upper Gornal and Woodsetton

Ward name changes
Cradley and Foxcote to Cradley and Wollescote
Lye and Wollescote to Lye and Stourbridge North

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power).  It's strange how homogeneous in geographical size Dudley's wards are, I have trouble telling the difference between the map and the cartogram:
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Brockmoor and Pensnett is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Gornal is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Lye and Stourbridge North is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
St James's is 2Lab/1UKIP and UKIP are defending in May.
Upper Gornal and Woodsetton is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.

Except for the northwest corner that's true of Coventry as well. Add the city's amusingly rounded overall shape and...

Doooodloooyyyiiiii itself is just four wards; Castle & Priory, St James's, St Thomas's, and Netherton, Woodside & St Andrews.

Sandwell 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/60/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from C
Wednesbury North

Lab gain from LD
Great Barr with Yew Tree
Newton

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Blackheath is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Bristnall is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Cradley Heath and Old Hill is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Great Barr with Yew Tree is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Newton is 2LD/1Lab and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Old Warley is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Princes End is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Wednesbury North is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Wednesbury South is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.

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

Well spotted.

Solihull 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/61/).  Changes based on 2007:

C gain from LD
Blythe
Shirley East
Shirley South
Shirley West
Silhill

Grn gain from Lab
Chelmsley Wood
Smith's Wood

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Chelmsley Wood is 2Lab/1Grn and Labour are defending in May.
Kingshurst and Fordbridge is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Shirley East is 2LD/1C and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Shirley South is 2C/1LD and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Shirley West is 2LD/1C and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Smith's Wood is 2Grn/1Lab and the Green Party are defending in May.

I thought there'd been a LibDem defect to Green in Shirley?

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.

Last map tonight, Walsall 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/62/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from C
Bloxwich East
Bloxwich West
Palfrey
Pleck
St Matthew's

Lab gain from Democratic Lab
Blakenall

Lab gain from Ind
Darlaston South

Lab gain from LD
Willenhall North

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Bloxwich East is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Bloxwich West is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Brownhills is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Darlaston South is 2Lab/1Ind and Labour are defending in May.
Palfrey is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
St Matthew's is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Willenhall North is 2LD/1Lab and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.

right, but I thought he was defending in May?

You're right; this article (http://www.solihullnews.net/news/solihull-news/2011/05/16/solihull-lib-dems-hit-by-new-crisis-as-councillor-defects-to-greens-105074-28704187/) suggests it should be:

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

A Labour councillor in Shirley?  Shirley some mistake?

:D

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

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whoa!

who's the light blue just south of Manc?

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.

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Yorkshire & The Humber.

Excellent work, leftbehind.

Final map in my West Midlands series, Wolverhampton 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/63/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from C
Bushbury North
Oxley
Wednesfield North
Wednesfield South

Lab gain from LD
Park

2010 map:
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2011 map (Ettingshall was unopposed):
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Bilston North is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
East Park is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Fallings Park is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Heath Town is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Oxley is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Park is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Wednesfield North is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Wednesfield South is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.

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:
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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.  

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

Link? These seem pretty good.

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.

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.

Scotland 2007; by largest party in % vote.

Will be updated in less than a month :P

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Nice.

East Midlands:
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I know it's not the most interesting part of the world politically, but I had a go at uploading some seat result maps and party strength maps for Cambridgeshire 2009 and 2005 (as far back as the current boundaries go...) to wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_County_Council_election,_2009
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_County_Council_election,_2005

Hardly uninteresting though; nice work :)

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Wrt to the East Mids map... lol Deanshanger.

Absolutely superb. Very, very impressive.


I think the map for Preston has one error on it .   Can you check Preston? That map has LibDems winning Ingol and Lea, which is not what happened?

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.

Start of a new series for West Yorkshire.  I'm hoping to get these out as soon as possible, given that I am busy this weekend with Gallipoli anniversary events, and then that will be it before the May elections.

Bradford 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/64/).  Changes based on 2007:

Lab gain from C
Bowling and Barkerend
Keighley Central

Lab gain from LD
Eccleshill
Manningham
Windhill and Wrose

2010 map:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Baildon is 2C/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Bowling and Barkerend is 2C/1Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Bradford Moor is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Clayton and Fairweather Green is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Eccleshill is 2LD/1Lab and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Heaton is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Keighley East is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Keighley West is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Queensbury is 2BNP/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Toller is 2Lab/1C and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Windhill and Wrose is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.

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

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.

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

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


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.

Calderdale 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/65/).  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:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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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.

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

Kirklees 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/66/).  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:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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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.

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

Leeds 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/67/).  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:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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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.

You're spoiling us. :)

Also, you've linked to Kirklees.

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.

Target hit :) 

Completing the Mets 2010/2011 series, Wakefield 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/68/).  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:
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2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward according to its voting power):
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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.

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

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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

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 :)


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.

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.

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)

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:

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2012:

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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.

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

SNP. The Lib Dems held on. Speaking of which

Liberal Democrats

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And now in 2012...

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

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?

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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.

Excellent. :)

Winning party by ward for all the old West Midlands Met County boroughs:

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Massive Labour landslides in Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Sandwell and Dudley. Brum provided a classic of its type in that Labour missed out on a couple of wards it really ought to have won, but won a couple of others that no one had thought likely. Also, Sutton Vesey. A very strange result in Walsall with Labour making impressive progress against the Tories in places, but also losing a couple of seats to assorted hard left weirdos (including one from Citizen Dave's bizarre outfit). The Greens did very, very well in Solihull again, and a Residents Association appears to have won a seat (oh dear). In Coventry, Dave Nellist was defeated by a taxi driver running for Labour. Many of the Labour percentages in Sandwell are hard to believe; the government is as unpopular there as in Liverpool, Glasgow or Ebbw Vale. Also, Sutton Vesey. In Wolverhampton the Tories failed to win a single ward inside the boundaries Enoch Powell's old constituency (which did not include Tettenhall). And then there's Dudley, where Labour won a logic-defying landslide (including seats in Kingswinford, Halesowen and Stourbridge proper!) and the Greens won a seat with UKIP losing theirs. Also, Sutton Vesey.

Despite our successes in and around Castle Bromwich, Dudley is one of the last places I'd ever expect the greens to win a seat, what's the story there?

especially not in a ward that borders right onto Sndwell

Not entirely sure, but then Doooodloiiiiiiiiiyyyyy is a very strange place. I'm guessing probably nothing to do with environmentalism, though.

Labour gaining Sutton Vesey, Rushall Sheffield, Penn and Merry Hill is utterly astonishing.

Also, as an aside, I am also shocked by the newly learned fact that Wolvo SW did not contain Tettenhall until 74. For such a Safe seat (66% for Powell at one point) not to include one of the Conubations wealthiest areas is weird.

Question regarding Coldfield - if you'd have been told before the election that Labour would win a seat in Sutton, would you have guessed Vesey as the least unlikely of the four? Or not even that?

I certainly would have said Vesey- Labour got 40% there in 2011, to 50% Tory. Even in 2008 Labour got 24% in Vesey, In a good year they've not beaten that % in other wards.

Vesey would always have been the most likely Labour win; it's basically humdrum suburbia these days rather than bourgeois clichéland, there's an increasingly public sector feel to the especially affluent bits (which obviously matters a great deal right now; see also the semi-hilarious emergence of Red Harborne), and Labour have run the same candidate (Rob Pocock, who's well known and well liked) for ages. This is like 70% a personal triumph for him or something.

A lot of Powell's constituents moved to Tettenhall during his tenure, of course...

Judging by the Election Maps in the gallery, Most of them moved to what is now South Staffordshire. Safe Labour till 1970, then safe Tory ever after.

What's now South Staffs was only created for 1974: before then the area covered by it was split between Brierley Hill (Labour until 1959, Tory afterwards even in 1966) and Cannock (Labour - with Jennie Lee - until 1970).

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West Yorkshire. Too tired to point much out, but, Christ, when did Labour last win Luddenfoot?

So, anyway, Labour landslides in Leeds and Wakefield, impressive Labour showings in Calderdale and Kirklees, and an even weirder set of results in Bradford than seemed likely (which is saying something). Perhaps not quite so utterly catastrophic for the LibDems as last year, but still catastrophic. Really quite consistently awful results for the Tories, reduced for the most part to absolutely base wards. Continued slow (but seemingly secure) progress for the Greenies. Pattern of Respect success is a mixture of effort and ethnic composition (but like 80% the latter or something). No BNP or other openly far-right councillors elected this year.

IIRC all the Sutton Coldfield wards stayed Tory throughout the 1994-96 nadir for them, but weren't there boundary changes in that area in 2004?  Did Vesey exist in anything like its current form?

In Sheffield, I believe this year was the first time Labour had ever won a seat with "Beauchief" in its name, and that many areas in Beauchief & Greenhill have a Labour councillor for the first time ever.  But that isn't quite as impressive as it sounds (though winning it was still impressive) as the ward has only existed in anything like its current form since 2004; the old Beauchief ward was quite different.

There used to be three wards in Sutton Coldfield, now there are four. The old Vesey was fairly similar to the current incarnation, though it was a bit larger. The areas lost in the rewarding are more middle class than the rest of the current ward, unless my memory is faulty (which is possible; don't know Sutton as well as the rest of Brum). But, yeah, they never lost any of them.

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South Yorkshire SSR. Not entirely sure if there's much need to say much more, though, yeah, Labour won Penistone.

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Glasgow, obviously. Will update for the recount in the one ward if that changes a seat, obviously. Wards have been coloured in based on the party that won the most seats in them first, and the most first preferences if there's a tie in the number of seats. Might be a few errors, but hope not.

Scotland coloured by party with the largest total number of first preference votes. Note, independents standing are not grouped together

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Why are the Western Isles White?

Only on the basis that I tend not to colour them (or Orkney/Shetland) in due to the saturation of independents. Often the only challenger is the SNP. No harm in adding that I suppose.

Map of greatness is great. Will fix the error in the Glasgow thing whenever I get time tomorrow or something.

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Old school map of Edinburgh.

The above maps are great

I'd just like to say that all of the maps in this thread are great :)

Also that Edinburgh map, which I presume is margin of victory is really interesting. It seems that the where the Tories won, they won big (unless that's just the shade of blue) which can't really be said for the other parties, apart from a few strongholds for Labour like Burdiehouse or Drylaw. Is this because the Conservatives are getting all the right of centre votes, so in some areas will get 50-60%, while there is a split in the left of centre ones, so the SNP, Labour and the Greens can't get large wins?

Yes. The Tories won lopsided victories in much of their older hinterland due to the Lib Dems falling back spectacularly so much so that they would have topped the poll in the Edinburgh Southern Holyrood vote. Of course it' worth remembering that the pattern of first preferences is not too different in many regards to voting patterns in previous local elections.

See the comparison with 2003; i've used the 2012 results and overlaid them over the old wards

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So 2012 under the old system would have given us Labour 24, Conservative 16, SNP 11, Green 6, Lib Dem 1. You can see that the Tory vote is where it always was, but it has in many ways eaten into the Lib Dems where it was a two way battle. The thing is, every party has eaten away at the Lib Dems too.

Great work! Especially of the Scotland-wide results!

Interesting, thanks for this.

What's really striking is the lib dems "lost" seats to everyone, and without the personal vote for Edie would have none, that again really does not bode well (if we're still part of the UK that is) for 2015. Another thing is that apart from the Conservatives and to a lesser extent Labour no one seems to have a strong base, that is areas which will vote for them no matter what. Finally what happened in central Edinburgh to Labour? Is that a case of the Lib Dem vote breaking against them or something else?

Back to the random results maps from the last few years.  I've started a new series for North London 2012 and the first three are already up on Vote UK.

Ealing 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2010/5/).  Lab 40 (+11) C 24 (-13) LD 5 (+2).

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Ealing Common: 1LD/2C
Elthorne: Lab/LD/C
Hobbayne: 2Lab/1C
Northolt Mandeville: 2Lab/1C
Perivale: 2Lab/1C

Tower Hamlets 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2010/18/).  Lab 41 (+15) C 8 (+1) LD 1 (-5) Respect 1 (-11).

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Bethnal Green North: 2Lab/1LD
Limehouse: 2Lab/1C
St Katharine's and Wapping: 1C/2Lab
Shadwell: 2Lab /1Respect

Barnet 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2010/2/).  C 39 (+2) Lab 21 (+1) LD 3 (-3).

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Coppetts: 2Lab/1C
Underhill: 1Lab/2C

Enfield 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2010/6/).  Lab 36 (+9) C 27 (-7) Save Chase Farm 0 (-2).

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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There were no split wards in 2010.

Finally updated my ward map for 1974-1980. So here be Glasgow.

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Brilliant.

It's strange that the weirdest detail of 1977 isn't actually all the blue (even if their last hurrah in Dennistoun is at least mildly amusing), but Drumchapel et al. Local issue?

It's been a tough one to pin down. Labour were involved in breeching house letting rules city wide which was one of the 'big' stories that year; though this appears to have affected Hutchesontown, the source of the scandal where the SNP won. I've yet to pin down why the SNP did so well there, which would be helpful as there was the Garscadden by-election the following year.

The map itself was based on physical descriptions and a rather crummy base map.

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I'm trying to put together a full compendium of maps for a site I may or may not be arsed making.

This is Glasgow by polling district 2012. The SNP/Tories were evens in one district. The Lib Dems and the Greens also won one. The pattern of SNP support is stronger than in 2007 (I have the map on her somewhere) How it was in 2011 is anyone's guess.

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 2011 Asturian Local Elections, winner parties:

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According to a list that I found at Wikipedia, local governments in the main councils:

Gijón: FAC (minority, Carmen Moriyón elected with the support of PP councillors); Oviedo: PP (minority, Gabino de Lorenzo retired on January 2012); Avilés: PSOE (minority); Siero: PSOE (minority); Langreo: PSOE (minority); Mieres: IU (minority).

 http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Elecciones_municipales_de_2011_en_Asturias

Local elections in Canary Islands, 2007-2011. Winner parties:

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Key: PP (People's Party, conservative); PSOE (Socialist Party); CC (Canary Coalition, center-right 'nationalist'); NC (New Canaries, center-left 'nationalist'); PIL (Independents of Lanzarote); IND (Various independents).

PSOE defeated PP in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria after 12 years of conservative rule. The candidate was Jerónimo Saavedra, a veteran socialist. Former president of Canary Islands (1983-1987 and 1991-1993) and former minister in the latter Felipe González cabinets. CC (Canary Coalition) won at Santa Cruz de Tenerife as usual, despite some urbanistic corruption scandals that maybe influenced the result (lack of majority).

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Key: as above plus ASSPT (abbreviated "Sí Se Puede", roughly "Yes, It's Possible"), a small self-defined ecosocialist party based in Tenerife that won a municipality and achieved some good results at Santa Cruz and other places.

Disastrous defeat of Jerónimo Saavedra and PP come back in Las Palmas. The PP candidate in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Cristina Tavío, won the election without majority. CC and PSOE formed a coalition government in the capital of Tenerife.

Lancashire County Council election, 2009
Divisions shaped to represent the majority of the winning party

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Leeds City Council 1980-2003.

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i thought that the greens had more seats than that in Leeds, before the branch went in with the tories and got slammed for it

Nope - AFAIA, their wins have always been confined to the three Wortley seats (and later Farnley & Wortley). You could be confusing them with Morley Borough Independents (who also use a Green colour, if it's maps you've been looking at).

I think I'm going to start posting these here again.  Currently I'm nearing the end of a Lancashire 2011 series.

South Ribble 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/v257). C 33 (-11) Lab 21 (+13) LD 1 Idle Toad 0 (-2).

South Ribble is a suburban/exurban district covering the area immediately south of Preston.  No one large town dominates; the largest centres of population are the New Town of Leyland and the Preston suburb of Penwortham.  The council has been Tory-controlled since 2007 after a bizarre close three-way split in 2003, the Lib Dems doing particularly well in Leyland where they now poll derisory figures.  Labour recovered in 2011 with most of their gains coming from Leyland.  No doubt doktorb will be along shortly with more information.

The Idle Toad, incidentally, is a one-man band run by ex-Labour county councillor Tom Sharratt.  Sharratt lost his district council seat in 2011, while the other former Idle Toad councillor is now in the Tories.

2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2011 were:
Bamber Bridge North: C/Lab
Farington East: C/Lab
Lostock Hall: Lab/C
Seven Stars: C/Lab
Whitefield: C/LD

I wonder how our international readers will take to an electoral ward called "Little Hoole and Much Hoole" :D

South Ribble really is.....well, bless it, it's bonkers. Things aren't helped by having "all out" elections, so swings are usually extreme at the best of times.

Leyland and Farington swinged (....swanged.....swang.....) in such bonkers ways because of one big local issue - a waste disposal/recycling site of some substantial size built on the boundary between the two towns. I worked in Farington at the time and on the walk to the bus stop sometimes the stench was insane. A spokesman for the plant suggested that local residents who didn't like the smell to use air freshener more often :rolleyes:

Prior to the construction, you had Lancashire County Council investigating itself into the planning application, the LibDems protesting against the construction (hence them doing well in that year), and then once the thing finally got beat someone had to suffer the electoral blame....

The boundary of Leyland St Ambrose cuts Buckshaw Village in half. That's the brand new, slightly Truman Show village being built on what was military ordnance property - all super modern houses with thin walls and themed street names, that sort of thing. The local authority boundary cuts it right down the middle and so at one point I assume this will have to be  resolved....

Interesting that such a fundamentally dull area could have such wacky politics.

Swung, Liam, swung.

He's from Preston. Be gentle.

Of course, if English speakers still understood the logic behind their few remaining strong verbs (at least to the just-barely-there extent that German speakers do) it would be "swang".

Wyre 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/v259). C 40 (-5) Lab 15 (+6) LD 0 (-1).

Wyre district is generally thought of rural, but it's actually based on three Blackpool satellite towns: Poulton-le-Fylde (which is actually the oldest town on the Fylde), Thornton-Cleveleys (basically a retirement area with some major government offices) and the depressed Victorian port of Fleetwood.  It's not obvious from the map, but the rural wards are actually disconnected from the towns by the Wyre estuary, the only link entirely within the district being a summer-only passenger ferry between Fleetwood and Knott End (in Preesall ward).  Fleetwood is dominated by Labour, the rural wards and Poulton are safe Tory while Thornton-Cleveleys leans Tory but can vote Labour in a good year for them.  The district is Tory-controlled since 1973 with the exception of four years of Labour control in 1995-1999.

2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Brock and Catterall were unopposed.  Split wards in 2011 were:
Bourne: 1Lab/2C
Cleveleys Park: 2C/1Lab

Can anyone spot the former fishing port?

;) :)

The industry still employs almost a thousand people, actually. Though mostly in processing rather than in actual fishing crews, nowadays - because the infrastructure is there, North Atlantic fish destined for the British market is landed at Fleetwood.

Lancaster 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/v252). Lab 23 (+9) C 15 (+3) Grn 8 (-4) Morecambe Bay Ind 8 (-4) Ind 6 (+1) LD 0 (-5).

Now here's some really wacky politics with the ever-fractious Lancaster City Council.  Here can be found the ancient city of Lancaster, the faded seaside resort of Morecambe, the ferry port of Heysham, the small railway town of Carnforth and some very beautiful countryside, particularly in Lunesdale.  At parliamentary level this district forms the basis of two very marginal seats, Lancaster and Fleetwood, and Morecambe and Lunesdale, both narrow Conservative gains in 2010.  At local level it's an unholy mess.

Lancaster's economy was completely changed by two major developments in the early 1960s.  Firstly, the city's notorious traffic problems led to the building of the Lancaster Bypass, one of the UK's very first motorways.  This took the long-distance traffic on the London-Glasgow route out of the city, but also meant that the place couldn't rely on the huge amount of passing trade any longer.  However, the city's economy was saved from decline by the development of Lancaster University shortly afterwards, which has created a huge student vote in the city.  This manifests itself in a Labour v Green battle in the city wards; all the Green Party councillors come from Lancaster.

On the other side of the Lune is Morecambe (what do you think of it so far? rubbish!), a very depressed seaside resort which became notorious in the late Noughties for the Morecambe Bay tragedy, in which a gang of Chinese immigrants picking cockles in the bay were drowned by the incoming tide.  Morecambe is having a huge amount of regeneration money pumped into it at the moment.  Morecambe runs seamlessly into Heysham (pronounciation: HEEsham), whose economy is based on the passenger ferries to the Isle of Man, services for the Irish Sea gas fields and two nuclear power stations.  Morecambe and Heysham politics is dominated by the localist Morecambe Bay Independents, who actually ran the city council from 1999 to 2003; Labour do well in the grottier parts of town and the Tories can pick up a seat or two as well.

The rest of the district is mostly a Conservative and Independent fiefdom, although Labour still hold one seat in Carnforth which is a major railway centre.

2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2011 were:
Carnforth: C/Lab
Heysham Central: Ind/MBI
Heysham South: 2C/1MBI
Poulton: 1MBI/2Lab
Scotforth East: Lab/C
Scotforth West: 2Lab/1Grn
Skerton West: 2Lab/1Ind
Torrisholme: 2MBI/1C
Westgate: 1MBI/2Lab

That Lancaster cartograph thing is joyous.

Last in the Lancashire 2011/2012 series, Ribble Valley 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/v255). C 33 (+4) LD 6 (-4) Ind 1.

Finishing up in the ever-beautiful countryside of the Ribble Valley and the Forest of Bowland.  Ribble Valley is a tiny district in terms of population, and its main town has shifted over the years; the Roman settlement here was at Ribchester, the main religious settlement was at Whalley, whose abbey was so powerful that its ancient parish covered virtually all of east Lancashire (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lancashire_Administrative_Map_1832.png).  However, the main town of the district is Clitheroe, which grew up around a Norman castle on the River Ribble.  Virtually everything north of Clitheroe was originally Yorkshire.  The only other town of any size in the district is Longridge (covered by the three wards west of Ribchester), which is essentially a Preston dormitory town.  The five wards on the southern boundary from Billington and Old Langho to Mellor are Blackburrn commuter territory.  (Fun fact: my uncle lived in Langho for a while, and when he moved back to the States and sold his house the buyer was Henning Berg, then playing for and recently managing Blackburn Rovers.)  Read and Simonstone are Burrrrrrnley dormitory villages, while Sabden's economy is based on treacle mining. (http://www.treacleminer.com/Mines/Sabden.html)

The politics of the area have got steadily more boring since the Lib Dem gain in the 1991 Ribble Valley by-election was reversed in the following year's general election.  The Lib Dem council seats are now confined to Clitheroe, with the Conservatives sweeping the rural areas and normally winning a few wards unopposed (three in 2011: Gisburn, Rimington; Mellor; and Ribchester).

2011 map:
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Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2011 were:
Alston and Hothersall: C/Ind
Littlemoor: LD/C
Salthill: C/LD

After a quick diversion to the 2009 Lancashire county council elections, the next series of maps will cover the 2010 elections in South London.

I’ve been toying with trying to show past local election results by constituency. By ward is too complex and by local authority area doesn’t pick up particular local trends. I’ve made a trial run with Strathclyde (using the 1983 boundaries as they were the first to be drawn using the new regions/districts) Worth pursuing?

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Doktorb did a map of Lancashire 2009 further up the thread (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=61153.msg3512322#msg3512322).  Here's my version:

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and the cartogram to match it:

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:bows down:


That's immense!

Just in case the image has been made unavailable or disabled, here it is again. But I have to say, I love your map Andrew :) The way Preston is increased and the other wards seem to "pull" towards there is amazing!

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Sort've OT, but while we're on county councils, what're people's thoughts about this May and the county elections? How are things gonna go?

Labour will make significant gains basically everywhere and will take control of most of the remaining county councils where such a thing is plausible under non-extraordinary circumstances. I suspect that matters between the National Government parties may be surprisingly fluid. UKIP will probably lose most of their current unty councillors, though (who knows) might pick up elsewhere.

I don't quite know about that...  Taking the recent Police commissioner elections as current (if rather turnout and LibDem poor) examples, the Tories could end up holding non-safe counties like Staffordshire , Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, and Yorkshire East Riding.

Well, considering 2009 results, Labour has nowhere to go but up and the reverse for Tories.

Would suggest that it's an error to use those joke elections as an example of anything.

Though I was careful to write most. Staffs wouldn't require an especially great night in theory (even if it doesn't include Stoke these days), but Labour have certain serious organisational difficulties there - which showed up in a set of genuinely catastrophic results in 2009 - and I would be very surprised at a Labour majority there. At least right now. I would love to be wrong, obviously.
Demographic changes mean that Northants is basically out of reach exception of a great night, Leicestershire CC is safe Tory barring utter catastrophe, and E.R. Yorks is actually a UA not a CC. And is certainly safely Tory.

First in the South London 2010 series, Lambeth 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u26). Lab 44 (+5) LD 15 (-2) C 4 (-2) Grn 0 (-1).

When the politicos in Parliament look out across the river, Lambeth is what they see.  At the northern end is a slightly touristy area around the South Bank, including the London Eye, County Hall, Waterloo station and Lambeth Palace, official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.  This is Bishop's ward.  Further south, Oval ward in Vauxhall is known throughout the world as the location of the [insert sponsor's name here] Oval cricket ground, home of Surrey cricket club and traditional location for the final Test match of the English cricket season.  But these areas aren't generally representative of Lambeth, whose largest centres are Brixton, Clapham (the borough includes the eastern half of Clapham Common), Streatham and West Norwood.

Lambeth tends to have a reputation for rather radical Labour administrations, exemplified by Ted Knight's administration in the 1980s and the later problems with Militant in the early 1990s.  Labour lost control of the borough in the 1994 election, got it back in 1998, lost control again to a Lib Dem/Tory coalition in 2002 and then defeated the coalition in 2006 - the only London council Labour gained that year.  The 2010 election re-elected a Labour administration for the first time in twenty years.  The current Labour administration is just as high-profile as the hard-left ones of old, but rather more innovative, responding to the local government cuts by branding itself as the first co-operative council with an emphasis on mutualism rather than outsourcing (cf Barnet).  The architect behind that idea, Labour leader Steve Reed, recently got himself elected to Parliament in the Croydon North by-election.

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Clapham Common: 1LD/2C
Oval: 2Lab/1LD
Thurlow Park: 2C/1Lab
Vassall: 2Lab/1LD

'I don't want someone of your class voting for me!'

If that isn't true, it should be.

Pro hint: The vast majority of those people who don't care about cricket have never heard of it. Most people around the world have barely even heard of cricket. 
;)

That's not exactly true. Around here, no one cares about cricket, but it's still reasonably known as a weird sport played by Englishmen.

And do you know anything about it? 'Cause otherwise that's basically what I meant by "barely heard of". :-*

Interesting tangentially related fact!  Apparently, more Scots play cricket than rugby- which you wouldn't know if you went by media coverage/stereotypes.

It's not a weird sport.

 There is, I admit, something weird in so many people waking up at half-3 in the morning to listen to the BBC Radio commentary of the most recent one-day test :) :P

[mock horror]You're joking![/mock horror]

I occasionally go to a quiz in Belgium, and the team setting the questions always put in a question about a cricket player.  It always gets a moan.

Some people reading this will get the reference to the Oval, and for the rest, it's an interesting fact to file away somewhere.

I did, for one. I've spent time in India, I know (most of) the rules laws.
Though I've never bothered to find out the first thing about how cricket is organized below the national teams level... :)

Are you familiar with the Gormenghast novels?

No. (Except reading up on it on wikipedia when you mentioned it recently.)

Croydon 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u23). C 37 (-6) Lab 33 (-6).

Once Surrey's only county borough, Croydon has now overtaken Bromley to become the largest of South London's twelve boroughs.  Thanks to its location on the road and railway line from London to Brighton, Croydon boomed in the nineteenth century, turning from a minor provincial town into a major leisure destination and then into a suburb of London.  Until the second world war, Croydon Airport was London's major airport and that led to the growth of Croydon as a serious business area, something which survived the closure of the airport in 1959 in favour of Deathrow.  The modern London borough, which also includes the fashionable and expensive suburbs of Coulsdon and Purley further down the Brighton Line, claims to be the largest town in western Europe without city status.

Croydon elections are incredibly polarised.  The Conservatives clean up in safe wards in Coulsdon and Purley and in southern Croydon, while Labour have their own share of safe wards in northern Croydon, Selhurst (home of Crystal Palace football club) and Norbury plus the enormous and isolated council estate of New Addington - effectively a council-built new town which has seen some high votes for far-right parties.  The effect of all this polarisation is that in the eight elections since 1986 the Conservatives have never fallen below 30 of the 70 seats on the council and Labour have never scored less than 27, so in normal political circumstances control of the council comes down to the only ward in the entire borough which can be described as marginal: Waddon ward, located south and west of Croydon town centre and including the private Whitgift School; much of Waddon ward is built on the old airport site.  At the 2010 election the Conservatives won Waddon and therefore continued to control the council; Labour took back seats they had lost to the Conservatives in 2006 in South Norwood, Upper Norwood and Addiscombe ward, but in a shock result lost to the Conservatives one of the two seats in New Addington ward.

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
New Addington: C/Lab

Sutton 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u31). LD 43 (+11) C 11 (-11).

Next door to Croydon to the west can be found the towns of Beddington, Carshalton, Cheam, Sutton and Wallington which form the London Borough of Sutton.  This is all comfortable suburbia with frequent rail links to London.  There's not really much more to say on that front; almost the whole borough is a place where affluent commuters live.  The southern and western edges of the borough are close to the North Downs and tend to be more expensive areas.

Sutton is a longstanding Liberal and Liberal Democrat hotspot: Sutton and Cheam was one of only two constituencies ever to elect a Liberal GLC councillor (in 1973, shortly after the Liberals won a parliamentary by-election in the same seat).  The Liberal Democrats have run the council continuously since 1986 and held a majority of seats since 1990, and gained both parliamentary seats from the Conservatives in 1997.  The Tories fought strongly in the 2006 borough elections but came six seats short of gaining control, and fell back in 2010, although their share of the vote isn't as poor as the seat figures suggest (LD 46.3 C 35.2 Lab 10.3).  Labour were wiped out of the council in 2006 after losing their last redoubt in St Helier ward, Sutton's half of a large council estate which straddles the boundary with Merton.

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Beddington South: 2LD/1C
Carshalton South and Clockhouse: 2C/1LD
Cheam: 1LD/2C
Nonsuch: 2LD/1C
Sutton South: 2LD/1C
Worcester Park: 2LD/1C

Southwark 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u30). Lab 35 (+7) LD 25 (-3) C 3 (-3) Grn 0 (-1).

Directly across the river from the City, Southwark is historically one of the most prosperous parts of the old county of Surrey thanks to its location on the south side of London Bridge; everything going south from the old City had to go through Southwark, and it became a market and entertainment centre (the old Globe theatre being just one of the many entertainments for Londoners located here).  The modern Southwark borough, which also includes Bermondsey and Camberwell, became a large and long-lasting slum area which is now seeing major regeneration: the Southwark waterfront has been taken over by professional and services companies in shiny buildings facing the City (including the Greater London Authority), while work is well advanced to replace the decaying estates in Peckham and in the Elephant and Castle and the Bermondsey riverside is swiftly gentrifying (Riverside and Surrey Docks wards voted for Boris last year).  At the southern end of the borough, Dulwich is a rather leafy area, atypical of the borough as a whole.  The newest addition to the Southwark skyline is the EU's tallest building, the recently-completed "Shard of Glass" at London Bridge.

Southwark's local politics has never been quite the same since that by-election in Bermondsey in 1983 (five days before I was born) which elected Simon Hughes in what had been a safe Labour seat.  At the following borough election in 1986 the Alliance won fifteen seats on the council from a standing start; eight years later there were 27 Lib Dem councillors and the Labour majority was down to four seats.  The pattern of party support is essentially unchanged since then, with the Lib Dems sweeping Southwark proper and Bermondsey, Labour sweeping Camberwell and Peckham and Conservative support confined to Dulwich; relatively few seats change hands at each election, with most of the seat changes coming in Dulwich and Walworth.  Labour finally lost control in 2002, the Lib Dems becoming the largest party on a hung council and forming a coalition with the Tories which lasted until Labour retook control in 2010.  The Green councillor elected in 2006 was Jenny Jones, the 2012 mayoral candidate, in South Camberwell ward.

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Chaucer: 2LD/1Lab
College: 2Lab/1C
Newington: 2Lab/1LD
Village: 1LD/2C

It's going to look rather different next year, methinks.

Southwark? It's gonna look like Newham!

Hopefully Jenny will get her seat back though

Lewisham 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u27). Lab 39 (+13) LD 12 (-5) C 2 (-1) Grn 1 (-5).

Having previously mapped Lambeth and Southwark, the list of deprived inner-city authorities on the south bank of the Thames is completed with the London Borough of Lewisham, on the Kent side of the old Surrey/Kent county boundary.  The modern borough combines Lewisham with Deptford, an old industrial and dock town on the riverbank; Lewisham itself is further inland along the south eastern main line, and claims to be home to Europe's largest police station.  The borough is entirely built up, with the last remaining gaps in the south of the borough filled by LCC council housing in the 1930s.  Deptford had an unusual practice of naming wards after historical people associated with the borough, of which only Evelyn ward survives; Grinling Gibbons ward was abolished in the last boundary review, while Drake, Marlowe and Pepys wards got more standardised geographical names at the same time (Brockley, New Cross and Telegraph Hill respectively).

That boundary review, which was implemented in 2002, reduced the size of the council from 67 to 54 members, and there was a good reason for this: Lewisham is the only south London borough to have adopted the elected mayoral system of running a council.  The mayor is Labour's Sir Steve Bullock who is now well into his third term having been in situ since 2002; at the 2010 election he easily defeated the Lib Dems' Chris Maines by 59-41 in the runoff, increasing his majority from four years before.  His council colleagues have had less success; after years of almost total dominance of the council the Labour vote fell off a cliff in 2006 and the party lost its majority.  The Lib Dems were the main beneficiaries, doing particularly well in the Lewisham East constituency on the back of success in local by-elections (there were at least three by-elections in 2002-6 in Lee Green ward alone), while the Greens gained seats from Labour in Brockley and the Socialist Alternative councillor in Telegraph Hill got a running-mate elected.  Labour got their majority back in 2010, and with holding the mayoralty and at least one councillor in every ward except Downham it would not take much of a swing in 2014 for Labour to pick up lots more seats.  The Tories are confined to the commuter ward of Grove Park, while former London mayoral candidate Darren Johnson has lost his council group but still holds a seat for himself.

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Blackheath: 2LD/1Lab
Brockley: 2Lab/1Grn
Crofton Park: 2Lab/1LD
Forest Hill: 2LD/1Lab
Grove Park: 1Lab/2C
Lee Green: 2LD/1Lab
Whitefoot: 1Lab/2LD

Bexley 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u21). C 52 (-2) Lab 11 (+2).

Much further out in Kentish London is Bexley, which occupies the space on the south of the Thames, and for some distance inland, between Woolwich and Dartford.  Much of this is commuter area along the three railway lines between London and Dartford, with semi-detached housing extending as far as the eye can see.  The main districts are Bexley itself, Crayford, Erith (an old port on the Thames) and Sidcup.  Bexley also contains half of the deprived Thamesmead development on the Erith marshes, a New Town in all but name which has become a magnet for immigration from west Africa; Thamesmead East ward has the second largest Black African population of any ward in England and Wales, 34.9%.  (The only ward with a higher Black African population is the other Thamesmead ward, which is part of Greenwich borough.)

Despite the presence of half of Thamesmead, which anchors a fairly safe Labour parliamentary seat in Erith and Thamesmead, this borough is mostly comfortable suburbia with a long history of Tory voting (Edward Heath was one of the MPs here for many years).  Despite this, the Tories managed to contrive, while polling the most votes, to lose the 2002 borough elections to Labour, who won several wards away from their strongest areas on the riverfront, particularly in the marginal Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency which had been successfully defended by Labour in the previous year's general election.  In 2006 there was a huge swing to the Tories, who polled over half of the vote and won an enormous majority on the council, confining Labour to the riverfront wards and even splitting representation in some of those wards.  That pattern was essentially unchanged in 2010.

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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The only split ward in 2010 was Belvedere (2Lab/1C).

Bromley 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u22). C 53 (+4) LD 4 (-3) Lab 3 (-1).

London's largest and perhaps most rural borough, Bromley is essentially all much of a muchness: comfortable suburbia which eventually fizzles out into Kent countryside.  The main districts are Bromley itself, Beckenham, Chislehurst, Orpington and Penge.

The borough contains three Conservative parliamentary seats, although all of them have had quite famous by-elections to give the Tories some worry.  Bromley and Chislehurst, the most recent, was nearly lost to the Lib Dems in late 2006; Beckenham was nearly lost to Labour both in the 1997 landslide and in a by-election later that year after the Tory MP resigned over a sex scandal; and most famously although a lot further back, Orpington was lost to the Liberals in a famous 1962 by-election.  Orpington has been the subject of a rather more recent Lib Dem hotspot, Chris Maines having four goes at the parliamentary seat between 1992 and 2005 and coming up each time just short of the Conservatives' John Horam.  The high point for the Bromley Lib Dems came in the 1998 borough elections, in which the Tories lost the majority they had held since the borough was created, the Lib Dems and Labour forming a coalition which, due to by-election losses and defections, failed to last the full four-year term.  The Tories were back in control in the summer of 2001, and it's all been plain sailing since.  Maines has moved on to Lewisham and the Lib Dem vote in Orpington has faded away; they now hold just one council seat in the constituency.  The main reboubt for the Lib Dems and Labour now is Penge and Crystal Palace, the closest part of Bromley to the inner city and part of a Labour parliamentary seat (Lewisham West and Penge).

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Clock House: 2C/1LD
Cray Valley East: 2C/1LD

Though Penge was, of course, in Beckenham back when Labour came close there. Couldn't have happened otherwise, the Beckenham part of Beckenham is ultraposh IIRC.

To risk understatement, yes.

Harold Macmillan was MP for Bromley when he was PM.

This is the local authority I was originate from, as I was born at Farnborough Hospital and lived in Penge when I was very young :)

With regards to the Beckenham constituency, the removal of Penge in the most recent boundary review made it notionally the safest Tory seat in the country IIRC.

Wandsworth 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u32). C 47 (-4) Lab 13 (+4)

This is Wandsworth.  Normal political rules do not apply.

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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The only split ward in 2010 was Roehampton and Putney Heath: 2C/1Lab.

Greenwich 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u24). Lab 40 (+4) C 11 (-2) LD 0 (-2).

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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The only split ward in 2010 was Blackheath Westcombe: 1Lab/2C.

Even better than your carpentry. ;)

Merton 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u28). Lab 28 (+1) C 27 (-2) Merton Park Ward Ind Residents 3 LD 2 (+2).

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Abbey: 2C/1Lab
West Barnes: 2LD/1C

Kingston upon Thames 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u25). LD 27 (+2) C 21 Lab 0 (-2).

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Alexandra: 1LD/2C
Berrylands: 2LD/1C
Canbury: 1LD/2C
Chessington North and Hook: 2LD/1C

Richmond upon Thames 2010 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/u29). C 30 (+12) LD 24 (-12).

2010 map:
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Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2010 were:
Hampton North: 2LD/1C
Heathfield: 2LD/1C
Kew: 2C/1LD
St Margarets and North Twickenham: 2LD/1C
Whitton: 2LD/1C

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Bigger map (PDF) (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/pdf/2010/2010-map.pdf)

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Bigger map (PDF) (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/pdf/2010/2010-cart.pdf)

Excellence

Let's try and reactivate this thread, shall we?

Scarborough 2011 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/v299).  C 25 (+2) Ind 14 (-1) Lab 6 (+2) LD 3 (-3) Grn 2. 

Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside.  Scarborough is Yorkshire's premier seaside resort, but the borough contains a lot more than that; to the north is the beautiful North York Moors coast (including the beauty spot of Robin Hood's Bay and the rather less beautiful Fylingdales radar station); the port and resort of Whitby, with its Captain Cook/whaling/Bram Stoker/goth associations; and the remote villages of the Esk Valley, while to the south is Filey, which by all accounts is a retirement ghetto.  The Tories generally clean up in the rural areas and have started making inroads in Whitby, while Scarborough voting is a godawful mess with lots of support for independents, minor parties (there is a Green group, and UKIP have won a by-election or two) and so on.  Anybody who knows how to pronounce Streonshalh - answers on a postcard please.

Changes based on 2007:

C gain from Grn
Stepney (1)

C gain from Ind
North Bay (1)
Streonshalh (1)
Weaponness (1)
Whitby West Cliff (1)

C gain from LD
Streonshalh (1)

Grn gain from C
Hertford (1)

Ind gain from C
Cayton (1)
Seamer (1)

Ind gain from LD
Falsgrave Park (1)
Ramshill (1)

Lab gain from C
Castle (1)

Lab gain from Ind
North Bay (1)

Map:
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Cartogram (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards in 2011 were:
Castle: Ind/Lab
Cayton: C/Ind
Derwent Valley: C/Ind
Falsgrave Park: Ind/Lab
Filey: 2Ind/1C
Hertford: Grn/C
Mulgrave: C/Ind
Newby: 2Ind/1C
North Bay: Lab/C
Ramshill: Ind/C
Seamer: C/Ind
Stepney: Grn/C
Woodlands: Ind/Lab

I have very fond memories of Scarborough.

Stroud 2012 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/w213).  I'll admit to not knowing much about Stroud, although it has a longstanding reputation for radical politics and was the first council to have a significant Green Party group.  Much of this is beautiful countryside with an industrial past.  The Green vote is concentrated in Stroud proper, although they lost a seat to Labour in the town in 2011; Labour generally are on an upsurge in the borough, although I have no idea how they managed to gain the rural Berkeley ward (which is known for two things: Edward Jenner, the founder of vaccination, and a long-closed nuclear power station).  Of the other towns in the district, Stonehouse is a safe Labour ward (although the Tories managed to win it in 2008) and Labour also do well in the surrounding villages, Cam has support for all three main parties and Dursley is transforming from an unpredictable three-way marginal into a good Labour ward.  Wotton-under-Edge is closely fought between the Tories and Lib Dems, who can also pick off the occasional rural ward from the Tories.

Changes based on 2008:

C gain from Grn
Nailsworth

Lab gain from C
Berkeley
Rodborough
The Stanleys
Stonehouse

Lab gain from LD
Dursley

Grey wards not up for election.  Coaley and Uley was a by-election.  Map:
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Cartogram (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Berkeley is C/Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.
Cam West is Lab/LD and Labour are defending in May.
Dursley is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
The Stanleys is (or are?) C/Lab and the Conservatives are defending in May.

Given that it's Gloucestershire, the answer is probably that the Labour candidate knew everyone in the ward and was liked by about three quarters of them.

St Helens 2012 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/w45).  A working-class town for working-class people, Sentelens is another of those large towns in south Lancashire that just seem to merge into one another.  Unlike many of the South Lancashire towns which essentially tied their fortunes to one industry, St Helens diversified rather; it was a centre of the Lancashire coalfield (the last Lancashire colliery to close was Parkside, near Newton-le-Willows), it was a centre for pharmaceuticals (Beechams, among whose offshoots was the orchestral conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, one of the controlling family) and it was, and remains, one of the world's most important centres for glass.  Pilkington's factory produces the UK's entire output of plate glass and hence has been instrumental in turning modern architecture into the acres of glass and metal that we know and love today.  On the other hand, even they are thinking of moving out. 

The smaller towns in the district are just as varied; Haydock is best known for its racecourse, Newton-le-Willows is an ex-pit town which is very slowly turning into a commuter area for the entire North West, while Rainford is essentially for middle-class Scouse exiles who can't afford to live in Sefton.  Rainford is not to be confused with Rainhill, which is the place where intercity railway travel started, with the victory of Rocket in the Liverpool and Manchester Railway's 1829 locomotive trials. 

The modern stars of St Helens are just as working-class as the town's reputation; one big lad from the town won one flavour of the darts world championship last weekend, the town's rugby league team is one of the best in the world, and, er, Johnny Vegas.  Contrary to popular belief, Napoleon (http://punch.photoshelter.com/image/I0000eZ6OctqstAk) was never here.

Continuously Labour-controlled from 1973 until the 21st century, by 2000 the Lib Dems had emerged as the major challengers, with an interesting patchwork of wards having developed with Labour and the Lib Dems having strong wards all over the place, the Tories confined to semi-rural Rainford and the more mixed Windle ward.  Labour lost their majority at the 2004 election and in 2006 the Lib Dems took control in a coalition with the Conservatives.  Labour got overall control back in 2010, and since then - well - there's nowhere the Lib Dem vote has melted away since 2010 quite so spectacularly as Merseyside.  So now the Tories are confined to Rainford, the Lib Dems are confined to the posh village of Eccleston (which they do not look like losing any time soon) and everything else is Labour.

Changes based on 2008:

Lab gain from C
Windle

Lab gain from LD
Moss Bank
Newton
Sutton
Town Centre

Map:
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Cartogram (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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Split wards are (not taking account of by-elections or defections):
Newton is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.
Sutton is 2Lab/1LD and the Liberal Democrats are defending in May.

And, as a bonus, you can have the previously undrawn (by me) map for 2002 and 2003:
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Purbeck 2012 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/w182).  Here we have the tiny local government district of the Isle of Purbeck, one of those Islands that isn't actually an island; Purbeck is a peninsula enclosing the southern half of Poole Harbour.  This is a spectacularly beautiful part of England; in particular, the southern coast of the district has been designated as the Jurassic Coast World Heritage site, thanks to its spectacular cliffs and interesting geology.  Off the other coast is Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, the site of the first ever scout camp.  This being the sort of area southerners like to go on holiday to, tourism is now one of the main drivers for the local economy, which traditionally has been based on quarrying.  The only towns of any size are Swanage, a seaside resort at the end of the peninsula; the mediaeval town of Wareham which is the district's railhead and administrative centre; and the twin villages of Lytchett Minster and Upton which are effectively Poole suburbs.

Much of the district is a Conservative/Lib Dem battleground, with the various Lytchetts, Wareham and Wool being quite closely fought; Swanage is a Tory stronghold.  As befits a very rural area there is the occasional independent (particularly councillor Peter Wharf in Bere Regis ward who has yet to face a contested re-election this century).

No changes based on 2008.

Grey wards not up for election.  Map:
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Cartogram (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):
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No split wards (not taking account of by-elections or defections).

As a St Helens RL fan, I must point out it's Sint'elens by local vernacular. The other interesting things is that the accent on the West of the town is more Merseyside, the East more Lancashire. Therefore you can tell where people are from just by how they speak

Everything else is (unfortunately) entirely correct...

Worcestershire 2013 (http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/x404).  This being the rump of Worcestershire after various urban bits like Dudley were amalgamated into the West Midlands.

The main towns in the county are the city of Worcester, which is politically mixed and a bellwether marginal; the new town of Redditch (ditto); the spa town of Great Malvern under its namesake hills, which is traditionally Lib Dem but saw a collapse in their vote in 2013; and Kidderminster, whose voting patterns have never been the same since the late nineties and the rise of the Health Concern movement protesting against the withdrawal of services at Kidderminster Hospital.  Smaller towns include Bromsgrove and Droitwich, which can vote Labour although Bromsgrove in particular is a Birmingham commuter area, and Evesham which is more agricultural in nature.  The rural areas are generally as Tory as you would expect, although the Lib Dems can win a seat or two (Beacon division is not a rural area; it's Birmingham overspill).

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