Comments on: 2001 Election Map of the UK

By: Harsh

Harsh — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:38:15 +0000

excellent..!

On a tech note.. it might be useful for flash newbee’s like myself , if you can write up a short process note for this.

thanks..!

By: Gavin Bell

Gavin Bell — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:56:29 +0000

Absolutely lovely work, I have one suggestion. A measure of the safety of the seat for each party would be good.

ie a way of identifying the marginal seats, weakest Labour seat, 2nd weakest etc…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:50:33 +0000

Raoul – although there have been by-elections and defections since the 2001 election, I think it would be misrepresentative somewhat to show the few consituencies that reflect, say, the 2004 post-Iraq war political climate like Brent East does, amongst all the others that still remain the same from 2001.

Come the next election there’ll be a full update though, of course.

By: alan

alan — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:33:14 +0000

Thought you deserved a bit more praise for what you’ve put together. Fucking good show, old sport!

By: Raoul

Raoul — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:29:51 +0000

That’s great. but… there have been a few by-elections since 2001 so maybe the map could be made more accurate by including those. I only noticed because you list my constituency (Brent East) as Labour when these days we’re Lib Dem. Results here: http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/notes/snSG-02667.pdf

don’t mean to nit-pick, though…

By: stefan

stefan — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:13:28 +0000

Absolutely brilliant!

By: Fin

Fin — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:24:08 +0000

BTW, despite not actually affiliating with any major political party (proof of this can be found on my Unison membership), rather self-indulgently, I'd like to point to the green colours, on the mainland, just above the Isle of Wight. They are Eastleigh, Winchester and Romsey & Waterside. Despite boundary shifts they've changed from Tory safe seats to strong LibDem ones. This heartens me for 2 main reasons:

1) Romsey went halfway through Labour's first term; an unheard of loss for an opposition party at such a time.
2) Winchester (after Gerry Malone demanded a recount) went from a LIbDem majority of 2 to a Lib Dem majority of approx 22500 (currently), making it their strongest seat.

The New Forest must be next to fall (not literally, obviously).

Ok, a little pleased now and far too egostistical.

By: Fin

Fin — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:11:56 +0000

Jeez. That is some good monkey.

By: jontce

jontce — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:29:52 +0000

if you need more bandwidth for this, i’ll gladly help (you can find me in IRC in the evenings, irc.phrenzy.org #twoblock, or catch me via email). I found you though linkbunnies, btw.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:56:30 +0000

May I be the first of doubtless many commentors to say, “that’s great, but how about…”? I’d love to see a version using a population-scaled map.

Seriously, though, that is really good. You should be proud.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:53:46 +0000

OK mate. Exactly how long did that take you? Very nice though

By: Armand

Armand — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:01:02 +0000

This is some good shizzle, Chris. V. impressive.

Nice to see student life is treating you so well…