Max's election maps and assorted others

[Thande]

ooooo

I did make a start on a story set in an alternate world where we lost WW1, and it featured an attempted German landing on the East Coast, which led to us reflooding the Fens in a panic. Post-war Britain loses a lot of colonies and has to pay big reparations to Germany (who desperately needs that cash, much more than we did OTL) so we can't afford to put it right.

Come to think of it, I could do that in LTTW, as that involved similarly re-flooding the Fens because of the invasion and I never specified whether they put it right afterwards...

 

[Ares96]

Depositing this hereabouts. Description can be found on the DA.

 

[Ares96]

DOUBLE HEADER! (they were technically one election, because Telangana only split off just after, although a) everyone basically knew they were electing separate assemblies, and b) while they were synched to the federal elections, these were Indian federal elections, so Telangana was in a phase that voted one week before the phase the rest of Andhra Pradesh was in)

 

[Ares96]

This was quicker than I'm frankly comfortable with.



Also virtually no change in seat possession from either the 2008 or 2003 elections - i.e. all the other ones that have been held since it became a state. I hereby officially proclaim Chhatisgarh the dullest state in India.

 

[Ares96]

Last night's results. Bear in mind this might change depending on whether the opposition contests the count.

 

[Uhura's Mazda]

Hadn't realised how small some of those constituencies were. Would be very happy if their electoral system were defined as 'PR but with one random FPTP constituency out in the sticks'.

At least the Swiss have an excuse.

 

[Tamar]

Would be very happy if their electoral system were defined as 'PR but with one random FPTP constituency out in the sticks'.

A system also used by Belgium.

 

[Ares96]

Hadn't realised how small some of those constituencies were. Would be very happy if their electoral system were defined as 'PR but with one random FPTP constituency out in the sticks'.

At least the Swiss have an excuse.

It's because they can't merge provinces.

While they're at it, Istanbul should probably have more than three regions to elect its 98 members. But at that point you may as well ask them to lower the threshold.

 

[Uhura's Mazda]

A system also used by Belgium.

Hadn't realised this was the case below, of course, the EUParl level.

 

[Tamar]

Hadn't realised this was the case below, of course, the EUParl level.

Oh no, I only meant the EU Parliament.

 

[Ares96]

Oh no, I only meant the EU Parliament.

Belgium must be the only country that actually synchs its national elections to the euros.

 

[Thande]

Belgium must be the only country that actually synchs its national elections to the euros.

That feels extremely Belgian.

 

[Mumby]

That feels extremely Belgian.

surely this is an oxymoron

 

[Nanwe]

A system also used by Belgium.

Or Spain in Ceuta and Melilla

 

[Nanwe]

surely this is an oxymoron

There are actual, distinctive Belgian things, like moules frites

 

[Mumby]

There are actual, distinctive Belgian things, like moules frites

oh no that is true

i do enjoy those on the rare occasions i have had them

which is twice

 

[Ares96]

I have too little time on my hands.



(there was in fact an election in 2017 as well, but it was such a BJP blowout that I'm put off by the idea of mapping it)

 

[Uhura's Mazda]

These Indian ones all look unnervingly like Magic Eyes.

 

[Ares96]

I've started the federal election map by cutting out insets for large cities from the state maps.



As you can tell, it's going to be riveting when it gets done.

 

[Ares96]

LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR

View attachment india-assembly-constituencies.png

(obviously there's still a bit to go, even so I thought I'd share a collated version of what I have by now)