Local Election Maps

[Smid]

Great work! Especially of the Scotland-wide results!

[bore]

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



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.

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?

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

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.  Lab 40 (+11) C 24 (-13) LD 5 (+2).

2010 map:


Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):


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.  Lab 41 (+15) C 8 (+1) LD 1 (-5) Respect 1 (-11).

2010 map:


Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):


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.  C 39 (+2) Lab 21 (+1) LD 3 (-3).

2010 map:


Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):


Split wards in 2010 were:
Coppetts: 2Lab/1C
Underhill: 1Lab/2C

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

Enfield 2010.  Lab 36 (+9) C 27 (-7) Save Chase Farm 0 (-2).

2010 map:


Cartogram of the 2010 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):


There were no split wards in 2010.

[afleitch]

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

[Leftbehind]

Brilliant.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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?

[afleitch]

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.



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

[afleitch]

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.

[Velasco]

 2011 Asturian Local Elections, winner parties:



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

[Velasco]

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



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).



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.

[doktorb]

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

[Leftbehind]

Leeds City Council 1980-2003.

[joevsimp]

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

[Leftbehind]

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).

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

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. 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:


Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):


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

[doktorb]

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

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....

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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

[minionofmidas]

Swung, Liam, swung.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Swung, Liam, swung.

He's from Preston. Be gentle.

[minionofmidas]

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".

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

Wyre 2011. 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:


Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):


Brock and Catterall were unopposed.  Split wards in 2011 were:
Bourne: 1Lab/2C
Cleveleys Park: 2C/1Lab

[doktorb]

Can anyone spot the former fishing port?

[minionofmidas]

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.

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

Lancaster 2011. 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:


Cartogram of the 2011 results (showing each ward in proportion to its voting power):


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