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Max's election maps and assorted others

Thanks for this. Interesting to see GE turnout in local elections helping a minor party, when obviously in the UK it has the opposite effect.
Well, the whole thing is they weren’t really a minor party anymore. They came a healthy second nationally in 1973, and actually lost seats in 1976 when the bloc as a whole finally broke through. I think it’s more comparable to compare it to, say, Labour starting to break through in a small Welsh council traditionally dominated by independents. Except in the opposite direction, of course.
 
Hmm. My sources now inform me that the lists marked in the statistical yearbook as "Folkpartiet" were actually a Liberal-Centre joint list in all constituencies but the 7th, which does neatly explain why the Centre did so much better across the board in 1962. Three of the Liberals elected on my map are supposed to be Centrists, but as I have no way to tell which ones, I won't edit the map.
 
Stockholm 1962/1970/1976
The prequel, 1962, held during one of those brief, weird interludes in history where Stockholm had council constituencies drawn by a perfectly sane person:

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The filler, 1970, the first election held after the municipal reform (and also the last not to have parish-level data - I wish these aligned better, but alas):

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And 1976, the first election held on more or less the boundaries used today:

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Stockholm 1946
And one of the earlier ones I got the data for: 1946.

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This remains the best result ever for a party to the left of the Social Democrats in Stockholm. Also one of the better ones for the combined left, although the 30s and 40s were left-wing times, so for the period it's perfectly average.
 
This remains the best result ever for a party to the left of the Social Democrats in Stockholm. Also one of the better ones for the combined left, although the 30s and 40s were left-wing times, so for the period it's perfectly average.

Kind of weird the Communists did so well in '46, seeing they had been excluded from the Wartime Coalition, and were generally ridiculed at the time for their line about how when they "Social Democrats are nothing but Social Fascists!", that, you had to understand, that had merely ever been a mistranslation of their orders from Moscow.
 
Kind of weird the Communists did so well in '46, seeing they had been excluded from the Wartime Coalition, and were generally ridiculed at the time for their line about how when they "Social Democrats are nothing but Social Fascists!", that, you had to understand, that had merely ever been a mistranslation of their orders from Moscow.
Well, the Social Democrats probably took a hit for governing with the right too - even if it was a wartime measure, Per Albin's line had always been national unity over party unity, and a lot of the Social Democrat left grew very, very angry with him over the course of the war. Plus these were banner years for European communism as a whole - the Red Army had just swept across the continent like the wind, after all, and news of Stalin's more questionable activities were still not widespread.
 
Well, the Social Democrats probably took a hit for governing with the right too - even if it was a wartime measure, Per Albin's line had always been national unity over party unity, and a lot of the Social Democrat left grew very, very angry with him over the course of the war. Plus these were banner years for European communism as a whole - the Red Army had just swept across the continent like the wind, after all, and news of Stalin's more questionable activities were still not widespread.

Well, possible, but still, my understanding is that a great majority of people had actually felt that it was outright statesmanesque and admirable of Per Albin to form the coalition government even when the Social Democrats had such a massive plurality in the Riksdag. I mean, in the election of 1940, the Social Democrats obtained their best result ever, almost 54%. They've only ever once since passed that golden 50% limit, in 1968.

Maybe Stockholm is a special case, but at most other places in the country, the Wartime Coalition was seen as decidedly the right thing to do.
 
Well, possible, but still, my understanding is that a great majority of people had actually felt that it was outright statesmanesque and admirable of Per Albin to form the coalition government even when the Social Democrats had such a massive plurality in the Riksdag. I mean, in the election of 1940, the Social Democrats obtained their best result ever, almost 54%. They've only ever once since passed that golden 50% limit, in 1968.

Maybe Stockholm is a special case, but at most other places in the country, the Wartime Coalition was seen as decidedly the right thing to do.
Well, whatever the case may be as far as that goes, the Communists did enjoy massive success in the 1944 parliamentary and 1946 local elections, mostly in places where the Social Democrats were already strong.
 
Decided to compile all the different constituency boundaries on one big map. This goes back as far as 1917, i.e. just before the equal franchise, and the constituencies are colour-coded according to number (red for the 1st, orange for the 2nd and so on up the spectrum).

Believe it or not, they get even more insane further back. Territorial contiguity was evidently not something anyone cared about in the 19th century.

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Also, finally finished Tjust on this. Since we saw it last, I've also done about half of Västergötland and added lakes to most areas that didn't previously have them.

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There was a brief moment when I realised the angle is off on this and began to contemplate just making the switch to vector, but then I compared it to my existing basemap and noticed the difference is about half a degree, so v:confused:v
 
ATP 1957 (Stockholm)
These statistical yearbooks turn up all sorts of weird side details. The 1958 one has a full results table, including percentages, for the 1957 supplementary pension referendum.

Now, in tried and tested Swedish fashion, the referendum was called because the coalition government couldn't agree among themselves, and in tried and tested Swedish fashion, it went far beyond anything so crude as a yes-no. Instead it had three options listed on the ballot. Line 1, supported by the Social Democrats and Communists, called for a universal right to supplementary pensions for all employees, with non-employees able to sign up to voluntary pensions whose value would be guaranteed by the state. Line 2, supported by the Agrarians, called for the system of voluntary guaranteed pensions to apply to everyone, while line 3, supported by the Liberals and Conservatives, rejected the idea of a state guarantee entirely and called for pensions to be agreed upon by the parties in the labour market and supported by legislation without a formal guarantee. Got that?

Well, in fairness, neither did most of the voters. Most of them voted on party lines, so I've marked Line 1 in red and Line 3 in blue on the map. Line 2 didn't win anywhere in Stockholm, but I'd depict it in green if it had won anywhere.

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As you can see, this basically aligns with bloc strength - it is sort of an interesting map insofar as we can see how a united right would look on the map. The Liberal vote being added to the blue total means we can tell the middle-class bits of Söderort apart from the properly proletarian bits, and Norrmalm goes from swingy on the ordinary maps to a solid blue. There is the obvious caveat that about 10% of Stockholmers voted for the Agrarian line, a number the actual party would never reach in the capital.

The nationwide result was 46% for Line 1 (whose supporters claimed victory because their line got the most votes), 35% for Line 3 (whose supporters claimed victory because Line 1, the only line calling for state control, hadn't gotten a majority) and 15% for Line 2 (whose supporters claimed "victory" because their line got half again as many votes as the Agrarians had gotten in the 1956 general election). The Agrarians left the cabinet, unable to work with a party they'd opposed in the referendum campaign, and Erlander's new minority government tabled a motion to introduce mandatory state pensions, which was narrowly rejected by the Second Chamber. The result was the most recent snap election in Swedish history, held in June 1958, which resulted in the socialist bloc getting a 116-115 majority. The Speaker was a Social Democrat, which nullified the majority, but the bill nevertheless passed when a Liberal member abstained (which almost immediately got him deselected and removed from his various party jobs).
 
Hedmark 1975 (R)
Bit of a test here - I mentioned the insane Norwegian county council election system in the other thread last night, and so I thought I'd make a sample map to see if anything can be gleaned about how seat distribution works.

I think the only thing I have gleaned is that it clearly has nothing to do with municipal-level results.

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Also, finally finished Tjust on this. Since we saw it last, I've also done about half of Västergötland and added lakes to most areas that didn't previously have them.

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There was a brief moment when I realised the angle is off on this and began to contemplate just making the switch to vector, but then I compared it to my existing basemap and noticed the difference is about half a degree, so v:confused:v

One of my many unfinished projects that I wish to take up this summer is to write that Python script that can accurately change maps according to their projections.
 
Sveriges syssel efter namnreformen 1919

Roslagen
Tiunda
Södermanland
Östergötland
Njudung
Värend
Möre (namnändrat till Möre och Öland fr.o.m. 1/1 1935)
Gotland
Blekinge
Nord-Skåne
Syd-Skåne
Halland
Viken
Älvsborg
Västergötland
Värmland
Nerike
Västmanland
Dalarna
Hälsingland
Norrland
Jämtland
Västerbotten
Lappmarken
 
SVFI: ”Två världar”
Två världar var en serie fjärrsynssändningar som gick ut från Svenska Rundradion åren 1966-1970. Serien utspelar sig i och kring Åbo under åren 1895-1925, och följer två familjer - en från stadens högsta societet, och en från arbetareklassen - genom denna tumultfyllda tid i Sveriges historia. Den blev extremt folkkär trots blandad kritikeropinion, och räknas som en av de främsta sändningarna i SR:s historia.

Serien tar sin början vid 1800-talets slut. Samtidigt som direktör Albert Abraham Carstens, delägare i Åbo handelsbörs, med familj firar att brodern Nils blivit invald i riksdagen för hattarna och äldste sonen Erik Adolf tagit studentexamen, bestämmer sig familjen Seppelä för att överge sitt steniga arrende och flytta in till staden. De får bostad i en hyreskasern vid Aningaistullen, ägd av direktör Carstens, och familjefadern Karl och äldste sonen Gustav får arbete i hamnen medan dottern Lisa blir tjänsteflicka hos hyresvärdens familj. Den första serien om sex avsnitt (sänd 1966, täckande åren 1895-1902) etablerar huvudpersonerna - som utöver de två familjerna består av Carstens affärsrivaler, Erik Adolfs studentkamrater vid Åbo universitet, tjänstefolket hos familjen och Karls och Gustavs krets bland hamnarbetarna. Allihop hör till, och vet sin plats inom, den intrikata samhällspyramid som kännetecknade tidens storstadsliv.

I den andra serien (sänd 1967, täckande åren 1903-08) skildras hur detta system bryter samman till följd av världskriget. Erik Adolf Carstens och Gustav Seppelä kommer bägge två i armén, men den förre blir stabsofficer tack vare sin utbildning och börd, medan den senare måste ta plats i skyttegravarna. Krigserfarenheterna bidrar till att föra de två unga männen (såväl som deras släkter) ännu längre ifrån varandra politiskt, och i det sista avsnittet deltar Gustav i fredsmyterierna medan Erik Adolf är med och smider planerna bakom Sveaborgskuppen. Även på hemmafronten ställs saker och ting på spets, då Carstens rederi skadas av kriget samtidigt som Karl Seppelä räddar sin familj undan svälten genom att smuggla cigarrer.

Den tredje serien (sänd 1968) tar sin början våren 1909, då Erik Adolf tar magisterexamen och bestämmer sig för att överge släktföretaget för att istället skriva för Åbo Tidning. Samtidigt ger sig Gustav Seppelä in i politiken, och blir invald i fullmäktige som socialist efter att rösträtten blivit jämkad. Serien slutar 1914, efter ”slaget vid Slottsgatan”, där Gustav deltar vid barrikaderna medan Erik Adolf för skriva sin första ledare till stöd för FVF:s agerande före kravallen.

I den fjärde serien (sänd 1969, täckande åren 1916-21) fortsätter
 
France 1815 (boundary changes)
Okay, prepare for a lot of France in the coming weeks. I was on holiday in Paris (staying with @Redolegna) all this week, and the day before yesterday we paid a visit to the Archives of the National Assembly, whose surprisingly small record room holds, among many other things, a (nearly) complete archive of electoral statistics going back as far as 1848. I was able to take home digital reproductions of all elections held under the Fourth Republic, as well as the 1936 elections (the last held under the Third Republic) and the very odd Algerian results from 1958 (the first elections held under the Fifth Republic). I also got to copy all of the maps (over 600 pages' worth of them) in Bernard Gaudillère's maginificent atlas of French legislative constituencies, which goes back as far as 1815. Provided I can find party affiliations of members, this means I will theoretically be able to map all those elections, albeit without majority shading.

So to start us off, here's a relatively easy one: the territorial losses sustained by France after the Hundred Days.

The original Frankfurt Proposals issued by the Sixth Coalition called for Napoleon to be recognised as ruler of a France whose territories stopped at the Pyrenees in the south, the Alps in the east and the Rhine in the north, the "natural borders" established under the First Republic. Napoleon rejected these terms, believing he could still win the war, and when he was finally defeated in 1814, the terms were much harsher. Louis XVIII was restored as King of France and Navarre, and while much of the Napoleonic government apparatus was kept in place, the territory of France was reduced to essentially its pre-revolutionary extent. However, Louis' attempts to rule with a light, non-alienating hand, as well as Napoleon's great deal of freedom in his Elban exile, backfired when the former Emperor was able to return to Paris and restore the Empire, ruling for another hundred days and waging a campaign that ended in his defeat at Waterloo.

This time, the gloves well and truly came off. Louis was restored again, but this time Napoleon would be put on a boat to the remote British colony of Saint Helena, and Coalition troops would occupy France to make sure no one tried any funny business (and collect a large indemnity). A few more border regions were also detached, leaving France with more or less its modern border in the north and the border that would hold until 1860 in the southeast.

The departments that lost territory are coloured on the map, with the areas lost in a lighter colour:
- In red, the department of Mont-Blanc, ceded in its entirety (20 cantons) to the Kingdom of Sardinia.
- In orange, the department of Bas-Rhin, which ceded four and a half cantons to Bavaria.
- In yellow, the department of the Moselle, which ceded four cantons to Prussia.
- In green, the department of the Ardennes, which ceded eight cantons to the Netherlands.
- In blue, the department of Nord, which ceded three cantons to the Netherlands.

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The atlas includes the constituencies that elected the Chamber of Representatives during the Hundred Days (basically the arrondissements, except in a few places), which is how I found these external borders, and I may go on to map the elections. That's not really my primary focus at the moment though - that's on the Fourth Republic.
 
There is a decent map of that in Zamoyski's book on the Congress of Vienna, though yours is obviously clearer. I look forward to seeing maps based on the election data you were able to find on your Indiana Jones-style exploits!
 
I look forward to seeing maps based on the election data you were able to find on your Indiana Jones-style exploits!
I may have a slight problem.

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This is the November 1946 National Assembly election, the first held under the constitution of the Fourth Republic (although the two previous constituent assemblies had been elected by almost the exact same system). Most seat colours should be clear, but perhaps not all - I'm going to add descriptions for those on the finished map, along with the fifth or so of seats elected outside the metropole.
 
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