U.K election maps

[Rural Radical]

Very interesting. I wonder how the 2005 result would have looked on these boundaries ?

If you draw a line from the Wash to the Severn its not that different from the 2005 result. The area north of that divide is very different. Especially in Cheshire.

[Rural Radical]

1955

Al,
The Labour vote in NW Wales will come back IMO. Can you do 1945 ?

[Rural Radical]

And now for '55...



1. Obviously a hell of a lot of things have changed in half a century; both demographically (looks at rural eastern England and thinks of a time when agriculture was still a big employer; looks at how London has both expanded and got "thinner" etc, etc...) and also politically (looks at the Orange vote in central Scotland... and also much of Lancashire, especially Liverpool and Manchester, looks at north/west Wales before that bloody dam was built, looks at the crooked deals with Tories that kept the Liberals semi-alive... etc, etc...).
2. And yes, your eyesight is fine, the Liberals won a seat in Bolton, a seat in Huddersfield and also Carmarthen [later lost to Labour in a by-election; Labour's candidate was DLG's daughter] while failing to win any in the West Country or the Highlands...

Al

Whats the blue dot in the middle of the Yorkshire Coalfield ?

[Rural Radical]

Whats the blue dot in the middle of the Yorkshire Coalfield ?

Doncaster believe it or not. Not the only working class town to vote for the Tories by narrow margins either (look at Carlisle, Glasgow and Sunderland). IIRC the old Donny seat didn't include all the town (as in the urban area; it probably included the county borough. I think Donny was a county borough...).

Come to think of it wasnt Doncaster a Labour Gain in 1964 ? And held ever since.

[Rural Radical]

Ah, yeah, Elastan Morgan. Had a number of close elections either way IIRC... in two or three different seats...

Elystan Morgan (Labour MP 1966 - Feb 1974) Cardiganshire is now (if anyone is interested) very high up in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth

How old is He ? I have driven from one end of the seat to the other today.

[Rural Radical]

Whatever happened to the Mini Hangman? He was selected to fight The Wrekin in 1997, and he was defeated.