Local Election Maps

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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:



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.

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

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

Spot the Rhondda Fach!

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Merthyr now:



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

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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?

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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!)

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(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.

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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.

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

Yep:

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

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

Birmingham




Manchester



Salford



Telford & Wrekin



Southampton



Doncaster



Bolton

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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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Crookes is mostly from the old Hallam ward, right?

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Who doesn't love Walker?

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

So were the LibDems in 2010

And 2005

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).

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Hardly uninteresting though; nice work

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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