OTL Election maps resources thread
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Uhura's Mazda
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This is pretty decent - I've posted a 2014 map before in higher resolution, but obviously that's an inconveniently large image. So this is probably better.
One thing, though: we really don't need insets for anywhere other than Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and three Maori seats. Tauranga and Palmerston and places are perfectly visible on the larger map and just take up space.
Edit: here.
Uhura's Mazda
Banned
Right, but they require the viewer to know where they fit geographically, either by knowing where every provincial city in NZ is or by matching the shapes to the gaps, and that hinders the objective of representing the election results in an easy-to-understand cartographical format.
And, I mean, the Dunedin inset is barely even enlarged.
kek your right i did it at 125% Yes it isn't very convenient to have so many insets for my earlier years [warning major map style change]
I didn't put in as many but for the even later years [warning another style change]
You can see I love insets
Well, the map for the New Zealand flag referendum on Wikipedia has a hopeless scale, so here's one using the one from the Swedish ones from earlier.
Thankfully Inkscape means this didn't take too long to edit.
I can do an anti-aliased blank map if anyone wants, but it'll take longer.
Ive got an Anti Analiased Map
I intend to make a series out of this. Belgium, or how to turn a working country into Europe's running joke
I'll start with the 1949 election, although there is not much to write in its description, so instead, I'l describe the electoral system and the parties. And we'll get more interesting content with the 1950 Royal Question which caused the 1950 (very) early election.
In 1949 modified its interwar electoral system into the following:
Semi-open lists were used.
As for the party system: Like many other Catholic countries, Belgium had a deep clerical vs. anti-clerical faultline that in Belgium's case also reflected the linguistic divisions between socialist Wallonia and staunchly Catholic Flanders. The rift was so strong between liberals and Catholics that when the working class parties appeared, they sort of adapted to the cleavage, resulting in the fact that liberals and socialists worked together very often (or ran joint lists in the most pro-Catholic party regions like Luxembourg or Limburg). As a result, although after WWII, Belgium arguably had two right-wing and two left-wing parties, alliances were not what you would necessarily expect. Catholics might govern with Socialists or Liberals (but only after the school question was settled in the 1950s), whereas Socialists and Liberals might govern together in a sort of anti-PSC coalition. Think modern-day Luxembourg, if you will.
After WWII, all the Belgian parties rebranded and refounded themselves, but they were direct continuations of the historical political tendencies within Belgian society.
The Parti social-chrétien or Christelijke Volkspartij (PSC-CVP) was a Christian democratic party, particularly strong in Flanders and rural Wallonia. The PSC-CVP was not like the German CDU however, instead its closest relative, politically-speaking were the French Christian democrats. The PSC was very economically interventionist and socially-minded, and particularly influenced by the interwar philosophy of Emmanuel Mounier, the so-called 'communitarian personalism'. It was economically interventionist, socially conscious, staunchly pro-European and favourable to 'free schools' (subsidising private, Catholic schooling).
The Parti socialiste belge or Belgische Socialistische Partij (PSB-BSP) was a social-democratic party, particularly strong in industrial Wallonia, so the various mining and industrial areas of the centre of the region, or the provinces of Liège and Hainaut. The party was re-founded after WWII from the old POB after the clandestine socialists from the Resistance movement took the party away from the collaborationist leader Henri de Man. The party was anti-clerical, and obviously social-democratic, playing a greater role in the creation of the Social Security and so on. Originally Eurosceptic until de Spaak became Foreign Affairs minister after 1954.
The Parti liberal or Liberale Partij (PL-LP) was the main liberal outfit until 1961, when it was renamed PLP-PVV (Party of Freedom and Progress). The Liberals were conservatives, but in an economic manner, although their coalitions with the Socialists throughout the 1950s and the general consensus of the time tamed that. But what mattered in the 1950s was that the Liberal were against 'free schools', and so made for the natural allies of the Socialists. The party had been the dominant political party of the 19th century, but later fell into a third-party status. The party was also Eurosceptic.
Lastly, the Communists, well, they were communists, essentially. The PCB-KPB would quickly lose most of its (limited) support in Wallonia in very few electoral rounds, largely gone from parliament by 1954.
The 1949 election ushered in a PSC-Liberal coalition that would prove short-lived, given the mess Belgium was about to endure due to the 'Royal Question'.
I'll start with the 1949 election, although there is not much to write in its description, so instead, I'l describe the electoral system and the parties. And we'll get more interesting content with the 1950 Royal Question which caused the 1950 (very) early election.
In 1949 modified its interwar electoral system into the following:
Semi-open lists were used.
As for the party system: Like many other Catholic countries, Belgium had a deep clerical vs. anti-clerical faultline that in Belgium's case also reflected the linguistic divisions between socialist Wallonia and staunchly Catholic Flanders. The rift was so strong between liberals and Catholics that when the working class parties appeared, they sort of adapted to the cleavage, resulting in the fact that liberals and socialists worked together very often (or ran joint lists in the most pro-Catholic party regions like Luxembourg or Limburg). As a result, although after WWII, Belgium arguably had two right-wing and two left-wing parties, alliances were not what you would necessarily expect. Catholics might govern with Socialists or Liberals (but only after the school question was settled in the 1950s), whereas Socialists and Liberals might govern together in a sort of anti-PSC coalition. Think modern-day Luxembourg, if you will.
After WWII, all the Belgian parties rebranded and refounded themselves, but they were direct continuations of the historical political tendencies within Belgian society.
The Parti social-chrétien or Christelijke Volkspartij (PSC-CVP) was a Christian democratic party, particularly strong in Flanders and rural Wallonia. The PSC-CVP was not like the German CDU however, instead its closest relative, politically-speaking were the French Christian democrats. The PSC was very economically interventionist and socially-minded, and particularly influenced by the interwar philosophy of Emmanuel Mounier, the so-called 'communitarian personalism'. It was economically interventionist, socially conscious, staunchly pro-European and favourable to 'free schools' (subsidising private, Catholic schooling).
The Parti socialiste belge or Belgische Socialistische Partij (PSB-BSP) was a social-democratic party, particularly strong in industrial Wallonia, so the various mining and industrial areas of the centre of the region, or the provinces of Liège and Hainaut. The party was re-founded after WWII from the old POB after the clandestine socialists from the Resistance movement took the party away from the collaborationist leader Henri de Man. The party was anti-clerical, and obviously social-democratic, playing a greater role in the creation of the Social Security and so on. Originally Eurosceptic until de Spaak became Foreign Affairs minister after 1954.
The Parti liberal or Liberale Partij (PL-LP) was the main liberal outfit until 1961, when it was renamed PLP-PVV (Party of Freedom and Progress). The Liberals were conservatives, but in an economic manner, although their coalitions with the Socialists throughout the 1950s and the general consensus of the time tamed that. But what mattered in the 1950s was that the Liberal were against 'free schools', and so made for the natural allies of the Socialists. The party had been the dominant political party of the 19th century, but later fell into a third-party status. The party was also Eurosceptic.
Lastly, the Communists, well, they were communists, essentially. The PCB-KPB would quickly lose most of its (limited) support in Wallonia in very few electoral rounds, largely gone from parliament by 1954.
The 1949 election ushered in a PSC-Liberal coalition that would prove short-lived, given the mess Belgium was about to endure due to the 'Royal Question'.
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Alex Richards
Donor
Very nice, however the borders of the communities were very slightly different at that time- it wasn't until the Language Laws of 1962 that the Arrondissement of Mouscron was transferred from West-Vlaanderen to Hainault and Voeren from Liége to Limburg.
Oh thanks! I wasn't even to find any maps from the time, so I just used data and assumed borders were largely kept the same. I'll fix that then
Alex Richards
Donor
Yeah, I went through the provinces for a 1950 Q-BAM I'm working on- you'd already got the only other change of having a merged Brabant.
Actually, do you know to which arrondissement did Voeren belong to? Liège or Verviers. I'm looking into the wiki, I can't find any reference to it, but perhaps on the base map you used it's included.
EDIT: Nevermind. I got it, mostly Verviers, although there were some minor border changes I can't look into due to municipality mergers (this would never happen in Spain
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Alex Richards
Donor
Q-BAM doesn't go down that far (though my SuperEuropeBam probably would), so I was just using the Genocide as well and didn't look beyond the Province.
Alex Richards
Donor
@Nanwe: Just looked things up on the French Wikipedia articles for the arrondissements. Moelingen and 's-Gravenvoeren were in Liège, the rest was Verviers.
It was pretty similar, basically. Except that the Chamber kept growing as the Belgian population grew until it reached 212 members in 1949. In 1993, with the reform of the Constitution and the creation of the directly-elected Walloon, Flemish and German parliaments, the size of the Chamber was reduced to 150 seats. The Senate was also directly elected, until 2014, and was just as powerful as the lower house until the 1993 (iirc). But although I have a list of the constituencies, I don't have it for the seat totals, so for the time being I won't map that.
Oh, and @Alex Richards
I found this for the Fourons/Voeren area, perhaps it's useful for QBAM mapping?
Alex Richards
Donor
It was pretty similar, basically. Except that the Chamber kept growing as the Belgian population grew until it reached 212 members in 1949. In 1993, with the reform of the Constitution and the creation of the directly-elected Walloon, Flemish and German parliaments, the size of the Chamber was reduced to 150 seats. The Senate was also directly elected, until 2014, and was just as powerful as the lower house until the 1993 (iirc). But although I have a list of the constituencies, I don't have it for the seat totals, so for the time being I won't map that.
Oh, and @Alex Richards
I found this for the Fourons/Voeren area, perhaps it's useful for QBAM mapping?
You'll need to link to the page there I'm afraid.