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Jun 18, 2019 21:45:17 GMT
Post by johnloony on Jun 18, 2019 21:45:17 GMT
I wonder which ward has the shortest name. Ince used to be one of the shortest constituency names if not the shortest before it was needlessly renamed as Makerfield. The shortest constituency name used to be Eye. I would think Eye (Mid Suffolk DC) is now the shortest ward name. I think that Eye was also the record for the smallest population of a town to be the name of a whole constituency.
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Post by greenhert on Jun 18, 2019 21:59:09 GMT
Hove is probably the shortest current constituency name? That is correct. It ties with Bath in that respect.
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Jun 18, 2019 22:00:38 GMT
Post by greenhert on Jun 18, 2019 22:00:38 GMT
The shortest constituency name used to be Eye. I would think Eye (Mid Suffolk DC) is now the shortest ward name. I think that Eye was also the record for the smallest population of a town to be the name of a whole constituency. It was. By the time of that constituency's abolition in 1983, the actual town of Eye only had 1500 residents. The largest town in the constituency was Stowmarket and in 1983 was nine times the size of the town of Eye.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 18, 2019 22:08:32 GMT
I think that Eye was also the record for the smallest population of a town to be the name of a whole constituency. It was. By the time of that constituency's abolition in 1983, the actual town of Eye only had 1500 residents. The largest town in the constituency was Stowmarket and in 1983 was nine times the size of the town of Eye. That was a hangover from the section in the instruction to the Boundary Commissioners in 1884 that if they disfranchised a borough, they had to name the county division after it. Eye was a Parliamentary borough from 1571, survived the Reform Act, but was disfranchised in the 1885 boundary revision. It was never the largest town in the division (though Stowmarket wasn't added until later) but the name was just rolled through until 1983. St Ives is still in that category - the county division was named after the disfranchised borough in 1885 but was never the largest town in the division - Penzance was larger.
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Post by hullenedge on Jun 21, 2019 7:05:30 GMT
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Jun 21, 2019 7:32:32 GMT
Very interesting to see the strong antipathy to fascism even if communism is the only alternative, along with support for pensions for women over 55 and (surprising to me) abolition of the death penalty. Makes the 1945 GE election result less surprising. Also note that Chamberlain had approval figures most modern party leaders would kill for, at a point when Munich was known to have failed.
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Jun 21, 2019 10:16:22 GMT
Post by The Bishop on Jun 21, 2019 10:16:22 GMT
Hanging and flogging were never universally popular, contrary to what some now try to tell us.
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Jun 21, 2019 10:19:55 GMT
Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 21, 2019 10:19:55 GMT
The nuanced responses to the questions on compulsory military service are fascinating.
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Post by David Ashforth on Jun 22, 2019 21:04:29 GMT
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Jun 22, 2019 23:15:44 GMT
Post by johnloony on Jun 22, 2019 23:15:44 GMT
I wonder what the pattern would be for US Congressional Districts. They are much more deliberately convoluted, so there might be more extremes.
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Post by greenchristian on Jun 23, 2019 13:31:03 GMT
The animated map is a really irritating way to display the information. It would be far better to have a static map with the constituencies colour-coded for their number of neighbours.
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Jun 26, 2019 2:20:35 GMT
Post by johnloony on Jun 26, 2019 2:20:35 GMT
I was looking for numbers of votes for candidates in parliamentary by-elections, particularly the numbers in which only one digit is used. There are loads of candidates who got 11 to 99 votes (a multiple of 11) and a few single-digit numbers. But in the last 50 years there have only been 7 candidates with 111 votes. The most recent candidate with a non-one multiple of 111 votes was 888 votes for the NF candidate in Birmingham Ladywood in 1977. I extended the search back as far as 1950. Apart from a few Independent candidates who got 44 or 99 votes, the only other single-repeated-digit number for a candidate in a parliamentary by-election was 9,999 votes for Peter Tapsell (Conservative) in Wednesbury in 1957 (thus the most recent 4-digit single-repeated digit number).
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Post by johnloony on Jun 26, 2019 6:32:35 GMT
The animated map is a really irritating way to display the information. It would be far better to have a static map with the constituencies colour-coded for their number of neighbours.
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Jun 26, 2019 15:27:39 GMT
Post by johnloony on Jun 26, 2019 15:27:39 GMT
^ I might have made a few mistakes, because it was very awkward to peer at the small details in the original images in the source material, and to double-check the number of boundaries for each constituency, I had to look closely at other maps. In a lot of cases there were four constituencies meeting very close together almost at a point, and it was difficult to determine in some cases whether two constituencies actually touch. Also, the original maps in the tweet seem to have a peculiar interpretation of how far the coastline extends up the River Thames in London, such that most constituencies along the river were not counted as bordering on the constituencies on the other side.
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Jun 27, 2019 13:54:35 GMT
Post by johnloony on Jun 27, 2019 13:54:35 GMT
I was looking for numbers of votes for candidates in parliamentary by-elections, particularly the numbers in which only one digit is used. There are loads of candidates who got 11 to 99 votes (a multiple of 11) and a few single-digit numbers. But in the last 50 years there have only been 7 candidates with 111 votes. The most recent candidate with a non-one multiple of 111 votes was 888 votes for the NF candidate in Birmingham Ladywood in 1977. I extended the search back as far as 1950. Apart from a few Independent candidates who got 44 or 99 votes, the only other single-repeated-digit number for a candidate in a parliamentary by-election was 9,999 votes for Peter Tapsell (Conservative) in Wednesbury in 1957 (thus the most recent 4-digit single-repeated digit number). I have now further extended the search back to 1918, and apart from one candidate who got 33 votes, there is a significant results from Kincardine and West Aberdeenshire in 1939. The Conservative candidate got 11,111 votes, and the Liberal was a near miss with 9,990. 1939 is thus the most recent parliamentary by-election with a five-digit repeated-single-digit number.
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Jun 27, 2019 14:01:14 GMT
Post by Andrew_S on Jun 27, 2019 14:01:14 GMT
General elections:
Bury St Edmunds, 1983: Lab 6,666 Huddersfield, 1992: LD 7,777 Taunton Deane, 2017: Con 33,333
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Jun 28, 2019 9:43:30 GMT
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Post by Adrian on Jun 28, 2019 9:43:30 GMT
I don't often dip into this thread, so I was having a look at the old Sheffield documents on the first page, and spotted the great name Batty Langley. I then discover that there have been two famous Batty Langleys. Of course then I ended up going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, emerging at Eton & Slough, represented for many years by a name I know well: Fenner Brockway. I hadn't known he'd so narrowly won - and lost - the seat.
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Jun 28, 2019 10:01:07 GMT
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Post by Merseymike on Jun 28, 2019 10:01:07 GMT
I don't often dip into this thread, so I was having a look at the old Sheffield documents on the first page, and spotted the great name Batty Langley. I then discover that there have been two famous Batty Langleys. Of course then I ended up going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, emerging at Eton & Slough, represented for many years by a name I know well: Fenner Brockway. I hadn't known he'd so narrowly won - and lost - the seat. Fenner- a real character. I met him towards the end of his life. A late friend of mine who was a peace campaigner and professional artist painted him and ended up acting as his companion on various peace related trips. At the time Slough was very marginal and he suffered a backlash for his stance on race issues. He had almost godlike status in India for his support of independence
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Jun 28, 2019 10:05:38 GMT
Post by The Bishop on Jun 28, 2019 10:05:38 GMT
He was beaten in 1964 - against the trend of course - by Anthony "Stalking Horse" Meyer.
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Jun 28, 2019 10:26:55 GMT
Post by finsobruce on Jun 28, 2019 10:26:55 GMT
I don't often dip into this thread, so I was having a look at the old Sheffield documents on the first page, and spotted the great name Batty Langley. I then discover that there have been two famous Batty Langleys. Of course then I ended up going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, emerging at Eton & Slough, represented for many years by a name I know well: Fenner Brockway. I hadn't known he'd so narrowly won - and lost - the seat. Fenner- a real character. I met him towards the end of his life. A late friend of mine who was a peace campaigner and professional artist painted him and ended up acting as his companion on various peace related trips. At the time Slough was very marginal and he suffered a backlash for his stance on race issues. He had almost godlike status in India for his support of independence I have a copy of his only novel "Purple Plague".
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