2004 European Elections Maps (UK LA's)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Couldn't find one anywhere else, so I decided to make my own.

Comments?

[minionofmidas]

Scotland and Northern ireland?
Title says UK, after all.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Results for Northern Ireland and Scotland weren't counted at local authority level (much to my irritation...) but results for Scotland are available for the old Parliamentary (and current Holyrood) constituencies. I'll make a map of that as well (although there'd be no need to do a special UKIP map; they only won more than 10% in one seat. Guess which one. Shouldn't be hard).
Two interesting things that don't show up on the map; in Powys Labour actually polled better in the Euro elections than the General Election (which backs up the idea that there was a hell of a lot of tactical voting in Brecon & Radnorshire) and in Bradford the Tories polled just 3pts higher across the MDC in the General Election than the Euro Election (Labour nearly 20pts higher). Doesn't bode well for the Bradford Tories in next year's council elections at all methinks...

[minionofmidas]

No, sorry, can't guess right now - I sort of got several conflicting notions where the UKIP might have been strong in Scotland.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

No, sorry, can't guess right now - I sort of got several conflicting notions where the UKIP might have been strong in Scotland.

Clue: borders Northumberland

[minionofmidas]

Berwickshire Tweeddale & Lauderdale...did I get the name right?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Berwickshire Tweeddale & Lauderdale...did I get the name right?

Roxburgh & Berwickshire (10.9%)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Forgot to add the Western Isles. Bah. Went SNP.

[Ben.]

Amazing how badly the Tories did in Scotland at the General really.

[Peter]

Whats the yellow dot just to the North West of London. I can ID Oxford and Cambridge as two of the Lib Dem LAs, but I can't even think of whats around there that would go LD

[Rural Radical]

Yellow dot Nw of London is Watford

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yellow dot Nw of London is Watford

Yep, that's it. Watford seems to have been infected with "community politics".

[minionofmidas]

Yellow dot Nw of London is Watford

Yep, that's it. Watford seems to have been infected with "community politics".

It almost went LD in the general, too.

[Ben.]

Yellow dot Nw of London is Watford

Yep, that's it. Watford seems to have been infected with "community politics".

It almost went LD in the general, too.

Nearly did... but Labour held on IIRC.

[minionofmidas]

Yep. Three-way marginal, btw.

[Hatman 🍁]

Facinating. Though it is hard to tell the difference between UKIP and Conservative. I thought darker purple was dark puple... not blue

[jimrtex]

Comments?

How come the high UKIP support in Lincs and Yorks?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Comments?

How come the high UKIP support in Lincs and Yorks?

They didn't have high support in Yorkshire; they did in Notts-Derbyshire though. I'm not entirely sure why... but it's interesting that they did better in the old UDM areas (Ashfield, Mansfield etc) than the NUM areas (Bassetlaw, Bolsover etc). They also did suprising well in Derby itself (and won a seat on the City Council).
IIRC that area doesn't much money from the E.U (structural grants and all that). I'll have to check though.

As far as Lincolnshire goes most districts in the county (Boston DC gave them there best result in the entire U.K) have a lot of pensioners and (from memory, I could be very wrong here) it's always been a fairly eurosceptic area for some reason. Having said that, the voting patterns in parts of Lincolnshire are a little strange.