2004 Euro Elections maps (U.K)

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The Key (which shall be used on all the maps for all the parties)...



And the first actual map... UKIP (who finished third; ahead of the LibDems).



As a general guide to anti-E.U sentiment in the U.K, this map isn't a bad guide, although do be warned that an anti-E.U Indie polled well in Sunderland.
Also note the fact that UKIP served as something of a BNP-lite party for a lot of middle class voters in this election.

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I've got a map somewhere showing how each council area in England and Wales (trust those Scots to use constituencies) and there was one thing I noticed. The UKIP strongholds were Lincolnshire and Devon and Cornwall. Is there a reason why UKIP do so well in those areas?

 

The West Country has been a hotbed of anti-E.U sentiment for a few decades now... interestingly enough, quite a lot of people who vote UKIP in Euro elections there, vote LibDem at Westminster level. In other words, it's also a hotbed of protest voting.
I seem to recall that Lincolnshire gave an unusually low (for England) "yes" vote in the early '70's (although I could be wrong). The high UKIP vote there could also be a reaction to the beginnings of Eastern European immigration (Holland (ie; Boston and South Holland districts) has seen one of the largest influxes in the country).

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The Greens now:



In general the pattern I'd been expecting (although Mole Valley was a suprise). In several rural districts they polled just under 10%, but these usually border districts where they topped 10% (example; South Shropshire and Malverns were both around about 8%, and both border Herefordshire).

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Their high support in Edinburgh, as a whole and Glasgow, close to the university hub in the west end looks promising for next year and is pretty much where I expected their support to be concentrated.

Agree; I think their best constituency in 2004 was actually North & Leith, rather than Central (which did suprise me a little).

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Wales as a whole is not very socially liberal and it's current economic setup (and economic history) are not things generally associated with large green votes... and in the one area where they could have done well (Ceredigion) they doomed themselves for all eternity by endorsing the Plaid candidate back in the 1992 General Election.

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BNP now:



Nothing suprising here (although had they polled a few more votes in Blaby, there would have been) o/c. What's interesting, is the way that this map reflects current (in 2004) areas of BNP activity; since 2004 they've (on the whole) fallen back in the old textile areas (as memories of the riots of a few years earlier start to fade, basically), while boomed (and then some) in certain London suburbs.

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Respect:

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SNP and Plaid Cymru now:



Plaid map is as expected, not so sure about the SNP map. Glasgow Govan is lower than I'd thought it'd be, ditto Ochil.

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LibDems:



The overall pattern isn't at all suprising, although the results in a couple of areas are odd.

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Tories now:

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And the final map; Labour...



Generally the sort of pattern you'd expect for that year. That Powys has a lot of tactical voting going on during General Elections becomes very obvious from that map, btw.

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Another Greenie map, this time with more whatsit things...