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Max's election maps and assorted others

You're not wrong per se. But forehead it's "la frente", the front or the forefront is "el frente". You came across one of the few cases when this happens in Spanish. 😅

Which it doesn't in French, but where there are a few interesting words such as "amour" which are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural.
 
Which it doesn't in French, but where there are a few interesting words such as "amour" which are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural.

I don't think that happens in Spanish (I'm certain it happens in Italian with the word 'egg', uovo and uova) but we do have a few words that can be either masculine or feminine depending on the whim of the speaker. El/La mar - 'the sea' ('la' is more poetical usually), el/la calor - 'the heat' ('la' sounds more rural and southern).
 
Fantastic work Max!

It's odd how it looks like a whopping landslide but is just a minority
That's because today we're conditioned to think the party that isn't the blue Tories is going to win smaller urban constituencies. The 19th century idea of more than one party being competitive in big rural seats feels very alien now (at least, in England). Related, the Tories were winning more small urban constituencies at this time (most obviously in Liverpool, Manchester and indeed London) which also confuses the modern eye trying to guess numbers.
 
You'll notice that although most seats in Ireland were contested by loyalists, they struggled to break 10% in most areas outside Ulster and southside Dublin. Well, most potential loyalist candidates noticed too - this is what it looked like in the next election:

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The Conservatives and Liberal Unionists (who held South Londonderry and South Tyrone) actually beat the IPP in the popular vote.
 
You'll notice that although most seats in Ireland were contested by loyalists, they struggled to break 10% in most areas outside Ulster and southside Dublin. Well, most potential loyalist candidates noticed too - this is what it looked like in the next election:

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The Conservatives and Liberal Unionists (who held South Londonderry and South Tyrone) actually beat the IPP in the popular vote.
Nice work. Are you using a different shade for the LUs as we discussed, I can't tell on this monitor.
 
And now for something completely different.

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Red - Bolsheviks (including "Hümmet" list in Transcaucasia)
Dark red - Mensheviks (including the nationalist Georgian Mensheviks)
Purple - SRs
Lilac - Ukrainian SRs and Ukrainian Socialists (shaded as SRs)
Warm yellow - Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Teal - Jewish Electoral Committees
Turquoise - Alash/Kirghiz parties
Green - Muslims
Middle green - Müsavat Party (Azerbaijani social-federalists)
Light green - Muslim socialists
Brown - Other ethnic minorities (Poles in Volhynia and Podolia, Citizens of German Nationality in Kherson, Latvian Farmers' Union in Livonia, Estonian Labour Party and Estonian Democratic Party in Estonia, Chuvash Unity List in Kazan, Bashkiri Federalists in Ufa and Orenburg, Popular-Socialist Party in Vyatka, independent in Pricaspia)
Olive - Council of Peasant Deputies
Grey (brown shade in Don Region) - Cossack Hosts
Light blue - Constitutional Democrats (Kadets)
Dark blue - Christian Union for Faith and Fathrland (I kid you not, that one guy in Nizhny Novgorod was the only pro-Tsarist candidate elected in the entire country)
 
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Bessarabia elected no deputies off Jewish lists, I think you're looking at the peasants' representatives who for some reason stood separately from the SRs there.
Dammit. Dankness Syndrome - to see teal where there is none.

That said, half the population of Kishinev apparently, though presumably quite a bit lower in the countryside.
 
Dammit. Dankness Syndrome - to see teal where there is none.

That said, half the population of Kishinev apparently, though presumably quite a bit lower in the countryside.
Worth noting here that a lot of the figures, especially for border provinces, are incomplete. Bessarabia is no exception, with three different sets of results provided by three different scholars - O. H. Radkey, the main source for the map, provides only results from Kishinev and three out of eight rural uyezds. The Soviet source I actually got the shading from claims to be complete, and has the Council of Peasants ahead while Radkey's compilation has the SRs ahead by about 6pp. It is worth noting that both of them have the Jewish National Electoral Committee on around 10%, whereas none of their members were elected. The Menshevik, however, was elected from a joint list with the Bund.
 
UK 1654 (constituencies)
A quickie - the constituencies used for the First Protectorate Parliament in 1654. I believe they were the same for the Second Protectorate Parliament two years later, but I'm unsure.

These parliaments have often been considered ahead of their time, drastically reducing the number of boroughs and apportioning county seats very roughly by population - in England. Scotland and Ireland were, shall we say, more questionable, as a result of being assigned only 30 MPs each. This in spite of the fact that Scotland had about a million inhabitants at the time, Ireland between two and three million (I only have figures for 1700, but suffice it to say I doubt Ireland grew that heavily during the 17th century) and England and Wales around five million.

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Very very nice work Max!

A lot of things are opened up by you having done this - we may be able to work back to 1867 and 1832 using the same basemap. (I say 'we', the offer of help is there if you want it).
 
Very very nice work Max!

A lot of things are opened up by you having done this - we may be able to work back to 1867 and 1832 using the same basemap. (I say 'we', the offer of help is there if you want it).
The Unreformed Parliament would be particularly easy - that is assuming we can fit all the split circles into Cornwall.
 
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