Cartographicum Thandeum

[Thande]

Because everyone else had one.

Some of these will be drafts of WIPs that will be uploaded to the AJR Election Maps deviantart when completed. Will be mostly election maps, with some other map types and general graphics interspersed.

 

[Thande]

I've been mapping London borough council elections by majority-margin in the wards, but as showing individual councillors elected is hard to do on maps of that scale (due to the multi-member bloc vote wards), I've decided to also do some 2014 maps showing number of councillors by party by ward. Here's the Tories:

 

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And here's Labour:

 

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The same for the Lib Dems:

 

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And here are all other parties on one map.

 

[Uhura's Mazda]

Fascinating how short a shrift Actual Indos get in London compared to Residents groups of various descriptions.

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that all of those Green councillors were elected under the description "Nah, don't bother voting for the other two, the Lib Dem candidates are actually really good".

 

[Thande]

Fascinating how short a shrift Actual Indos get in London compared to Residents groups of various descriptions.

Yes; they were more of a thing in the 60s, but true independents almost always gave way to Residents' groups (some of which call themselves Independent Residents, which I am counting as teal other because stop taking the piss).

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that all of those Green councillors were elected under the description "Nah, don't bother voting for the other two, the Lib Dem candidates are actually really good".

They don't list whether they used the 'first choice' thing in the results I looked at, but probably. They were all elected in wards where the other 2 councillors were Labour, and were never the leading candidate: Camden 3rd, Islington 3rd, Lambeth 2nd, Lewisham 3rd.

 

[Alex Richards]

Yes; they were more of a thing in the 60s, but true independents almost always gave way to Residents' groups (some of which call themselves Independent Residents, which I am counting as teal other because stop taking the piss).

Indos and Residents used to be a lot more common in general I'm finding. Which should be expected really.

 

[Thande]

Finally totted up all the data, so here is the ultimate Thandean Graph.

 

[Thande]

Finally finished.

 

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[Ares96]

Really channelling your inner Oxbridge graduate with that title.

 

[Alex Richards]

Capital work there Thande.

 

[Uhura's Mazda]

Capital work there Thande.

You're not getting a like for this.

 

[Thande]

It's interesting how colour scales look different on different monitors--on the one I have at home (which is really a TV), the 60% red and blue shades stand out more prominently from the rest than they do on other monitors. Which leads me to notice the interesting point that while Labour had several 60%+ majority wards in 2014, they were in Brent, Ealing or Merton, not where one might naively expect them to be in Inner London.

(The Tories, on the other hand, had all their 60%+ wards in Kensington - in previous years Knightsbridge in Westminster was often also one, but in 2014 a lone Green managed to push them down to 'only' a 59.2% victory margin)

 

[Thande]

2010 London local elections:

 

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And 2006, a.k.a. Tory Spank Material.

I probably won't have a chance to do any more now due to today being election day. All of these are also posted on The Deviantart.

 

[Alex Richards]

Think I prefer the white background to the boxes in the councillors elected bit.

 

[Thande]

Think I prefer the white background to the boxes in the councillors elected bit.

Yeah, I did that by accident and then realised it looks better - I've edited the other two on the DeviantArt to be the same.

 

[Uhura's Mazda]

2006 is of course my spank material as well, but for different reasons.