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Alex's Comissions and Maps Thread

Essex 1974
And here's Essex in '74. So that's the East of England finished.

Greater London will be both straightforward - as it's all boundary changes between boroughs and a single parish- and potentially a bit tricky if I decide I need to do an enlargement.

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Buckinghamshire 1974
And moving into the South East with the various workarounds I'm now doing, here's Buckinghamshire.

Milton Keynes is one of the areas that has, understandably, changed the most since then- and has actually ended up with more parish councils as the city has grown.

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Oxfordshire 1974
One that should be of interest for @AndyC and @Mosak at least: Oxfordshire 1974. Probably the most surprising thing in retrospect is that Oxford didn't annex anything from Vale of White Horse when they did their big expansion in 1991.

Oxfordshire 1974.png
 
Lighter: been to; Darker: spent a night?

Darker is 'actually spent time in', lighter is 'transit'.

For the English parish map, I'll count 'set foot in' for darker and lighter is just 'travelled through.'

So I feel like I can count Savoie as having been to because, thanks to a train delay, I did end up crossing the road from the station at Aix-les-Bains and getting a bite to eat even though I basically saw nothing of the town, but I wouldn't count 'exited the train, rushed to another platform, boarded a new train' as doing the same for Kanton Zürich (Basel-Stadt is borderline because I didn't leave the station, but I did actually do some things like changing money, get a coffee and so forth).

On the other hand for 'hypothetical commune map' of France I would count 'stood on the platform for a bit' because I feel like the requirements for having actually been to a commune or parish need to be much lower when, realistically, nobody is going to go to the effort of staying the night at every single village in a random area whereas they might walk through them.
 
On the other hand for 'hypothetical commune map' of France I would count 'stood on the platform for a bit' because I feel like the requirements for having actually been to a commune or parish need to be much lower when, realistically, nobody is going to go to the effort of staying the night at every single village in a random area whereas they might walk through them.

You do not feel like doing the full Charles Herbement?
 
Surrey 1974
And now Surrey.

Having seen just how much of the north of the county is unparished now- and that's after some of it was parished in the 90s- I can really see why the Greater London border in Surrey was originally meant to be so much further south.

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Starting a little trio of maps here with the 2013 election in Malaysia. This is basically the last point where the old traditional formula of 'the Barisan Nasional is super dominant and everyone else bands together to try and get at least some opposition' worked out.

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5 years later the 2018 election saw the opposition finally win in Malaysia- despite massive amounts of malapportionment. I've got two maps here, one using the official teal blue of the PH, and one using the DAP red, which stands out more, and is also what they ended up adopting for 2022. You can see how the PH majority was built basically by pushing out from the big Urban centres into the smaller urban and suburban areas along the Straits coast while the GS nibbled away further in the northern states.

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And here's 2022. The last two seats to come will be a GPS victory in Sarawak and either the PH or the PN in Kedah so I've left those ones blank appropriately.

I've also got two maps here, because the PN officially are using a dark blue and are indicated with teal in many Malaysian sources and the GRS are usually shown in orange, but the Teal/Blue contrast is a bit difficult so I've done one where they've inherited the old GS/PAS Green shades and the GRS get teal so all the BN pact components get similar tones.

Compared to last time the PH has dropped back, the PN has established itself as a national force and the BN has been utterly obliterated in most of the peninsular- Johor and Negeri Sembilan are basically the only bright spots.

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