The perennially excellent London DataStore
has published comprehensive, accessible and usable data on the 2015 General Election. So, naturally, I had to make some maps of it. There probably
isn't anything about this election that hasn't been mapped but since my
last blog was a General Election piece I thought I'd do a little follow-up, with not a hexagon in sight. There have been
quite a few 'who came second' maps but not many which include third and fourth places. I'm particularly interested in London because it's something of an exception in the South East of England and, well, I just wanted to make some maps. Below you'll see maps for who came first, second, third and fourth. The last map has the constituency names. I resisted the temptation to do a 'who came eleventh' map, but, since you asked, there were only four constituencies where there were at least 11 candidates, and the parties included the Whig Party. They might have been quite prominent had these maps been made in 1830 (incidentally, there were 658 constituencies in the UK then, which only had 24 million people).
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| 'That's Blockbusters' - for Labour |
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| UKIP emerge and Tories dominate second place |
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| UKIP by far the most in third place - Greens emerge |
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| No place for three 'main' parties here |
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| Just in case you don't know all constituencies off by heart |
You should be able to see pretty big versions of the maps if you click on them and then open them in a new tab/window. I've dispensed with the usual boring map legend and instead turned it into a 'bargend' (a portmanteau I just invented). I hope you find these interesting.
Final nugget: the Whig Party came 9th in Bethnal Green and Bow (their best result) with 203 votes for my namesake, Alasdair Henderson.
