British Elections 1918-1945

[minionofmidas]

Cool.

[minionofmidas]

It's not Anglican.

[minionofmidas]

Ah, Saklatvala.

[minionofmidas]

What's with the enduring Liberal machine in Bethnal Green?

[minionofmidas]

Local Labour politics was fractious (Bevan gained his seat after deselecting the previous incumbent) and often somewhat parochial.

And what, I pray, do you mean by "was"?

[minionofmidas]

Ah yes, I remember that agricultural-to-mining transformation in (what is now the Sherwood constituency) described as "within living memory" in some guide to the 2001 election.

Re Nottingham West - yeah, Wollaton Colliery was right in Nottingham. Whereabouts in the city were(/are?) the Raleigh works?

[minionofmidas]

Can I request the southern West Riding?

Do you mean current South Yorkshire (roughly) or everything south of the Wharfe or so?

(but yes, of course)

The former, essentially, maybe north to about the Calder.  But I'm not going to complain if you do the latter!

What I might do - though I'll have to check the maps I'd be working off - would be to draw an outline map for all of the West Riding south of the Wharfe and split it up when posting.

If you're going to do that, why not make the outline map the entire West Riding?

Since I actually thought of demanding that next! (Derbyshire was the other place I thought of.)

[minionofmidas]

Rereading Notts just now, and I need to state my amazement at the age of the "Rushcliffe" and "Broxtowe" names - especially as that version of Broxtowe is a direct predecessor to the modern Ashfield, not the modern Broxtowe.

[minionofmidas]

Bookmarked for use in the summer of of 2014.

[minionofmidas]

What's with the unlabelled constituency east of Pollok?

[minionofmidas]

I'm looking forward to you clocking up another 8 posts or so and posting links and images!

It does seem a rather odd rule, does it not? I'll try to get round to it as soon as I can.

(BTW this is rather obviously a gratuitous post just to count towards my 20, while trying not to be completely off topic. I wonder if there's a special thread one can work out the 20 posts on?)

There's an entire board for that, baby. "Off Topic".

The rule's just to prevent bots posting ad links, I think.

[minionofmidas]

Swindon went Labour in 1929? I know it has a railroad history, but that surprised me.

Also, lol at Manchester 23 vs Manchester 31!

[minionofmidas]

and, of course, I'm not adding descriptions. If anyone has any requests for more pretty maps, just say.

My request would be to change the policy regarding descriptions. Or else to badger Al to do it (and IIRC he did Somerset at one point, or was that for the postwar era?)

[minionofmidas]

Labour's early strength in Manchester is in the mining parts and not in the textiles dominated slummy city centre. As a very broad summary.

[minionofmidas]

Huh, I remember at some point looking through historical constituency names in Birmingham and spotting that odd survival of a single cardinal point. So that has been cleared up for me now.

[minionofmidas]

For the 1945 elections, they split all those constituencies that had grown to over half the average size in two, but didn't do anything about the very undersized constituencies. (As it happens, both these groups were somewhat Labour-favorable that year. To a degree we're talking about the cleared slums and the places they had been cleared to.)

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Oh, and obviously this map now needs to be colored in by result.

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Sort of, although in the case of the undersized seats this was massively accelerated by wartime displacement. Postage stamp-size constituencies like Southwark North or Limehouse didn't have their inevitable scrubbing off the map by pre-war slum clearance but by the Luftwaffe.

It's not my fault, my relatives were all in the army or the navy!

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I actually misspoke... but still would have been wrong, strictly speaking. I meant "twice", ie 200%, when I wrote "half".
No idea how that happened.

[minionofmidas]

This will probably get wiped off PostImage as soon as I put it up, but here's 1923

Doesn't show up (on the atlas) for me, but when I quote your post and copy and paste the image url into a new tab it's there. And it's a work of beauty.

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Apologies!? Wtf is wrong with you, man? That map needed a London inset!