OTL Election maps resources thread

Thande · Feb 7, 2012

While we're on the subject, here is 1964. Again not completely sure on the Nat Lib seats, especially those in Bradford and Bristol.

Alex Richards · Feb 8, 2012

This is mainly to test the Nugaxian Election Map Scheme (NEMS) utilised in LTTW for the Empire of North America on OTL Britain. So, here's Cornwall in 1818 -the last election I can get both MPs for before Grampound was disenfranchised for corruption

(seriously, the seat had been sold for 300 guineas a man. And there were only 42 voters), in all her rotten glory. With a grand total of 44 MPs, she has one fewer than the whole of Scotland, and would lose over half her seats at the Great Reform Act. Things of note:

1. The map is still very cluttered.
2. The Tories are very much in charge here.

Thande · Feb 8, 2012

Excellent piece, Alex. And Grampound was far from the worst seat in the country: there's the classic example of Old Sarum, which had no voters at all yet elected two MPs (including at least one Prime Minister!) for centuries.

The real problem with elections in this period was how malleable and ambiguous party identity was. Someone might be called a non-partisan in one source and a Whig or Tory in another. You're almost better off calling them Government and Opposition or something like that.

Alex Richards · Feb 8, 2012

Thande said:
Excellent piece, Alex. And Grampound was far from the worst seat in the country: there's the classic example of Old Sarum, which had no voters at all yet elected two MPs (including at least one Prime Minister!) for centuries.

The real problem with elections in this period was how malleable and ambiguous party identity was. Someone might be called a non-partisan in one source and a Whig or Tory in another. You're almost better off calling them Government and Opposition or something like that.

Except then they move in and out of government by how well their relationship with Lord X or Bishop Y is going at any particular point, never quite going to the opposition, but often out of government.

Thande · Feb 8, 2012

Alex Richards said:
Except then they move in and out of government by how well their relationship with Lord X or Bishop Y is going at any particular point, never quite going to the opposition, but often out of government.

Yeah, it's just annoying. Although the 1810s arguably aren't as bad as the 1840s which I've been reading about lately, the realigning of the parties is such that you can't keep track of who's in government.

Tocomocho · Feb 8, 2012

1931 Municipal elections - Blue: Republican, Pink: Monarchist

1931 General elections - Blue: Center-Right, Red: Left

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1933 General elections - Blue: Right, Green: Center-Right, Pink: Left

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1936 General elections - Blue: CEDA, Green: Centre, Pink: Popular Front

Alex Richards · Feb 8, 2012

And to follow up with a more normal example, here's Devon, same year.

Thande · Feb 8, 2012

Alex Richards said:
And to follow up with a more normal example, here's Devon, same year.

I wonder where the Whig county strongholds were in that year?

Also, how do you plan to show the university constituencies?

Alex Richards · Feb 8, 2012

Thande said:
I wonder where the Whig county strongholds were in that year?

Also, how do you plan to show the university constituencies?

University constituencies would, I think, be best as a seperate borough-style layout without line on the Oxfordshire/Cambridgeshire maps. A square box could probably be used for the County Corporates. EDIT: Which Exeter actually should be.

As for the Whigs, the problem is we're right in the middle of the long period of Tory dominance between 1783 and 1830. I think it would be a case of coming across them by accident, so to speak, though, as its virtually impossible to work out from national results, county constituency results etc.

Thande · Feb 8, 2012

Alex Richards said:
University constituencies would, I think, be best as a seperate borough-style layout without line on the Oxfordshire/Cambridgeshire maps. A square box could probably be used for the County Corporates. EDIT: Which Exeter actually should be.

As for the Whigs, the problem is we're right in the middle of the long period of Tory dominance between 1783 and 1830. I think it would be a case of coming across them by accident, so to speak, though, as its virtually impossible to work out from national results, county constituency results etc.

It was a period of Tory dominance but the 1818 election still saw a pretty strong Whig opposition, I'm just wondering if the Whigs are thinly distributed or there are some areas that are Whig strongholds despite the overall Tory dominance.

Tocomocho · Feb 19, 2012

I doubt there will ever be a post-1977 Spain TL but here goes the OTL results:

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1977 GE: Green - Centre, Red - Socialist, Orange - Catalan nationalist right, Dark Green - Basque nationalist right

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1979 GE: Blue - Centre, Red - Socialist, Green - Basque nationalist right

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1982 GE, after the UCD's great blunder:
Red - Socialist, Blue - Right, Green - Basque nationalist right, Orange - Catalan nationalist right

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1986 GE: Red - Socialist, Blue - Right, Green - Basque nationalist right, Orange - Catalan nationalist right, Pink - Centre

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1989 GE: Red - Socialist, Blue - Right, Orange - Catalan nationalist right, Green - Basque nationalist right, Pink - Basque nationalist left

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1993 GE: Red - Socialist, Blue - Right, Orange - Catalan nationalist right, Green - Basque nationalist right

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1996 GE: Blue - Right, Red - Socialist, Orange - Catalan nationalist right, Green - Basque nationalist right

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2000 GE: Blue - Right, Red - Socialist, Orange - Catalan nationalist right, Green - Basque nationalist right

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2004 GE: Red - Socialist, Blue - Right, Green - Basque nationalist right

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2008 GE: Red - Socialist, Blue - Right

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2011 GE: Blue - Right, Red - Socialist, Orange - Catalan nationalist right, Green - Basque nationalist right, Dark Green - Basque nationalist left

Thande · Feb 19, 2012

Some maps of the popular vote distribution in the unusual four-candidate US presidential election of 1912 I made.

I could perhaps have chosen a better scale, especially for Wilson (there's no distinction here between northern states where he got 41% and southern states where--in the case of South Carolina--he got 95%!) but hey.

Thande · Feb 24, 2012

I am also now testing the Nugaxian "Little Mans" map scheme for multi-member constituencies, in this case the three British euro-elections since the introduction of party-list proportional representation in 1999.

Thande · Feb 24, 2012

While it doesn't actually mean anything due to the PR system, I also made maps showing which party won the popular vote in which region.

Thande · Feb 24, 2012

I did France as well, for the two elections since they adopted sub-national constituencies in 2004. Not posting the popular vote because it's boring--in 2009 the UMP came top in every region, and in 2004 the Socialists came top in every region except Outremer where the Communists did.

Thande · Feb 27, 2012

Map of the party members' popular vote by constituency in the 2010 Labour leadership election. Note that because the Labour Party uses an electoral college system, this only represents one-third of the process, the rest being made up of polling MPs and affiliated organisations such as trade unions. Hence Ed Miliband was the eventual victor even though David Miliband swept the party members, as seen here.

Derived from a map on the Genocide which was badly recoloured.

Alex Richards · Feb 27, 2012

Really strikes home just how much of an issue there is with Ed's leadership in relation to how much support he has in the party. I think I can count the number of big, labour voting cities he actually won, and still have fingers to spare.

Ariosto · Feb 27, 2012

1988 Democratic Primary County Map

Never mind. Can't figure out how to properly size it to something like Thande's.

Thande · Feb 27, 2012

Alex Richards said:
Really strikes home just how much of an issue there is with Ed's leadership in relation to how much support he has in the party. I think I can count the number of big, labour voting cities he actually won, and still have fingers to spare.

Yeah, I was struck by just how many of the constituencies Ed won were in rural areas that would never vote Labour.

Ariosto said:
Never mind. Can't figure out how to properly size it to something like Thande's.

Can't you just show the small blank map from US Election Atlas? Or is this by county or something?

Ariosto · Feb 27, 2012

1988 Democratic Primary County Map

Thande said:
Can't you just show the small blank map from US Election Atlas? Or is this by county or something?

Slightly bigger, but still too small to work out some of the details.