I'm debating whether it's worth adapting the old Boothroyd base map for the new UK parliamentary boundaries or not. On the one hand there are much better base maps now, but I do like the idea of perpetuating comparable election maps.
Yeah, nothing will ever convince me to use vectors - that goes back to my days in the mid-90s trying to find editable map gifs that weren't so low resolution they didn't show Newfoundland as an island.Great work. And the original one is an .svg which means the detatched areas are probably all single shapefiles for easy colouring. Not that that helps anyone using a raster program rather than a vector one.
EDIT: Though thinking about it, does it fit if you swap the locations of Belfast and the Notts-Derby insets on that map, because there's just someting bugging me about how Belfast is sitting off the east coast of the country rather than being near Norn.
Thanks, that's a good point.To my mind, 1972 has always felt like a good point for showing that transition. The Southern Strategy becomes increasingly obvious at the Presidential level from there forward, but it doesn't really trickle down to the House level until the Gingrich wave of 1994, and it doesn't really complete itself until the mid-2000's (minus a very slight reversion in 2006 and 2008).
Aren’t a majority of county-level officials in the Deep South still Democrats?To my mind, 1972 has always felt like a good point for showing that transition. The Southern Strategy becomes increasingly obvious at the Presidential level from there forward, but it doesn't really trickle down to the House level until the Gingrich wave of 1994, and it doesn't really complete itself until the mid-2000's (minus a very slight reversion in 2006 and 2008).
Not without creating another line and wasting a lot of space, yeah. The main reason I did it this way (other than avoiding the previous system I used where the map for the year where redistricting happens just has numbers on so there's no clean version) was precisely because otherwise you'd end up wasting space for non-presidential years. But year it does mean sometimes the district maps aren't in the most logical place in terms of time placement.I do like using the presidential results by CD to compare. The district maps are a bit awkwardly placed, but it's not like you could place them less awkwardly.