UK local elections, May 2012

[afleitch]

I'm working on my maps. Worth noting how Labour have bounced back rurally in the north of Scotland. They are still, in many cases a distant third, but the collapse of the Lib Dems has seen some old patterns of support be re-affirmed.

[afleitch]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18017940

Langside Ward in Glasgow may be re-run follwing the discovery of an uncounted ballot box in Battlefield. It may affect the elimination of some candidates in the earlier round. On the 8th Count a Green was elected over an SNP. Probably unlikely to change the overall result though.

EDIT: I stand corrected. The box contained up to 400 ballot papers.

[afleitch]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18017940

Langside Ward in Glasgow may be re-run follwing the discovery of an uncounted ballot box in Battlefield. It may affect the elimination of some candidates in the earlier round. On the 8th Count a Green was elected over an SNP. Probably unlikely to change the overall result though.

EDIT: I stand corrected. The box contained up to 400 ballot papers.

A recount is taking place today.

[afleitch]

Some Scottish local authorities have released ballot box data from the elections. This allows you to match up first preference votes etc to each polling district. As Edinburgh have been kind enough to release the data, that's my first port of call.

[afleitch]

Some Scottish local authorities have released ballot box data from the elections. This allows you to match up first preference votes etc to each polling district. As Edinburgh have been kind enough to release the data, that's my first port of call.

Can't wait for this

My first stab. Some polling districts had 4 parties seperated by a dozen votes, so I'll be doing party maps soon.

[afleitch]

What's that Librul enclave like? (Apart from the presumable personal vote factor.)

Also, Labour polling divisions in the New Town? Wtf? Studenty Green vote is studenty.

What I really love about this map is that it is as if (with the exception of the Greens and the SNP) someone has peeled away twenty years of paint.

The Green vote is concentrated enough to have won them about 6 or so FPTP seats under the old system. The map itself doesn't do them justice and I'm working on vote share maps for each party. I'll be starting with the Greens. They did very well in Leith Walk, which is coloured solid red, even though Labour were only marginally ahead of the SNP. The Greens were polling between 17 and 25% there

In the centre of the city, the votes themselves become 4 way ties. The Labour parts of City Centre Ward (the ballot boxes were combined), are not well populated. The area is the old Townhead part of the city and the beginning of the sprawl towards Leith. Labour polled 162 votes, the Tories 156 and the SNP 148 and the Greens 115. So only 6 votes seperated the top 2 and 47 votes seperated the top 4. Next door, the Old Town went 41% Tory.

Worth noting that postal votes are not counted in any of these maps. They are simply collected by ward, so they don't tell us much. However the Tories won City Centre ward and looking at the totals, that was on the strength of the postal vote.

The Lib Dem enclave (and the Lib Dems were just shy of winning two neighbouring districts) is indeed Corstorphine proper. It's Paul Edies personal vote there. Just north is a red patch in Drum Brae/Gyle ward. This is Clermiston, a 1950's housing estate. It's an overspill estate. While the Labour vote isn't strong enough to outvote the neighbouring areas, it's nice to see it make an appearance.

I'm still getting percentage totals for Edinburgh (and spotted just one mistake). I've still to tackle the east of the city.

For 'lols' the lowest % share for the Lib Dems I've found is 0.84% in part of Sighthill/Gorgie ward. The highest Green share so far is 48.85% in part of the Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart ward.

[afleitch]

I'll be starting with the Greens. They did very well in Leith Walk, which is coloured solid red

Neither of which is surprising.

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"New Town", surely? The bit of it bitten off and included in the red is mostly the pubcrawling bit of Rose Street etc I suppose.

Yes. My apologies; typo. Should of course read New Town. And the red bit of the NewTown is the pub district/bus station/theatreland area.