Vote UK Almanac of British Politics?

[jacoblamsden]

May 8, 2020 14:34:11 GMT yellowperil said:

I see that we have now got 327 constituencies in the system, of course of varying length and quality, but in that very limited sense we have passed the half-way point. I don't know how other people feel about their entries, but as far as "mine" are concerned - and I have now offered entries in some state or other of completion for 7 Kent constituencies and 4 Sussex ones- none of those are remotely near being the finished product, nor were they intended to be.As far as those two counties are concerned,I think 2 Kent constituencies and 4 Sussex ones have been done by other folk, and I have indicated I might be prepared to take on two more,Arundel & South Downs, and East Worthing and Shoreham, which would take us to 18 in Kent & Sussex together. That would I think still leave 6 Sussex constitiencies (Bexhill & Battle, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex and Wealden) and 8 more Kent ones(Chatham & Aylesford, Dartford, Gillingham & Rainham,Gravesham, Rochester & Strood,Sevenoaks, Sittingbourne & Sheppey, Tonbridge & Malling) which I believe are unclaimed.

I've just started preparing a profile for Tonbridge and Malling which I will hopefully finish in the next few days. I don't know the Malling half of the constituency at all well though, despite visiting Tonbridge loads of times - the more I think about it the less coherent Tonbridge and Malling Borough really is.  

[John Chanin]

I'm done. Remarkably over the last two months I have written 45 profiles, and that covers all the seats that I have anything more than a cursory knowledge of. I'm not interested in trying to write profiles of other areas, which would just be an accumulation of statistics and google/wikipedia searches - dry and uninteresting. Major outstanding gaps (apart from the glaring absence of Scotland despite several voluminous Scottish posters) would seem to be Devon/Dorset, Leicestershire, Greater Manchester, and Durham/Cleveland.  I might compile a list of missing seats to try and encourage someone who hasn't participated so far, to take them on.

[andrewp]

May 27, 2020 7:02:14 GMT John Chanin said:

I'm done. Remarkably over the last two months I have written 45 profiles, and that covers all the seats that I have anything more than a cursory knowledge of. I'm not interested in trying to write profiles of other areas, which would just be an accumulation of statistics and google/wikipedia searches - dry and uninteresting. Major outstanding gaps (apart from the glaring absence of Scotland despite several voluminous Scottish posters) would seem to be Devon/Dorset, Leicestershire, Greater Manchester, and Durham/Cleveland.  I might compile a list of missing seats to try and encourage someone who hasn't participated so far, to take them on.

A list would be useful. There are probably 3 or 4 more that I can do.

[Robert Waller]

Thanks so much to John for his splendid efforts, and to the other posters above for suggesting they might be able to carry on ...

... I would venture that if we only take on seats of which we are really confident, this exercise will never get close to 650 constituencies. I myself would be happy to welcome entries from posters who know what is required even if they have to do some research. They might even find it an interesting and enjoyable process. We are not asking for perfection, and as this is a cooperative procedure others can always join in once the thread is started.
When I was doing my Almanacs I was far from equally expert on all seats!

[The Bishop]

I promised to do most if not all of the Cumbrian seats an embarrassingly long time ago. But I haven't forgotten this, and hope to get started in the coming week

[Deleted]

Happy to do Wellingborough if no one else wants to.

[John Chanin]

I promised to list outstanding ones, and I will do a post separately for each region. Some of the early posts were very thin, and I have identified these as well, as the original author might like to elaborate them, or someone else do so. I'm not trying to get at greenhert , who has done some nice prrofiles, but I think he would agree that his early efforts at the beginning of April weren't great.

England only for the time being.  I've got a life to lead and the sun is shining.

[John Chanin]

South West region at 27/5/20

Devon
Plymouth Moor View
Plymouth Sutton & Devonport
Devon W & Torridge
Devon SW
Torbay
Newton Abbot
Devon Central
Devon North
Totnes also needs improvement

Somerset
Wells
Bath

Wiltshire
Swindon N
Swindon S
Wiltshire N
Devizes
Chippenham
Wiltshire SW

Dorset
Poole
Mid Dorset & Poole N
Bournemouth W
Bournemouth E
Christchurch

[John Chanin]

South East Region at 27/5/20

Hampshire
New Forest W
New Forest E
Hampshire NW
Eastleigh
Meon Valley
Fareham
Gosport
Porstmouth N
Portsmouth S also needs improvement
Havant
Hampshire E
Aldershot

Sussex
Horsham
Crawley
Mid Sussex
Wealden
Bexhill & Battle

Kent
Tonbridge & Malling
Sittingbourne & Sheppey
Gillingham & Rainham
Chatham & Aylesford
Rochester & Strood
Gravesham
Dartford
Sevenoaks

Surrey
Surrey Heath
Surrey East

Berkshire
Bracknell
Wokingham
Reading E
Reading W

Oxfordshire
Oxford W & Abingdon needs improvement

Buckinghamshire
Chesham & Amersham
Aylesbury
Buckingham
Milton Keynes S

[John Chanin]

East Region at 27/5/20

Essex
Harlow
Chelmsford
Saffron Walden
Braintree
Witham
Colchester
Harwich & Essex N

Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire SE
Cambridgeshire South
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire NW
Peterborough
Cambridgeshire NE

Norfolk
Norfolk NW
Norfolk SW
Norfolk Mid
Norfolk South
Norfolk North
Broadland
Yarmouth
Norwich N
Norwich S also needs improvement

[John Chanin]

London Region at 27/5/20

Bexley & Sidcup
Bexleyheath & Crayford
Erith & Thamesmead
Greenwich & Woolwich
Lewisham E
Lewisham W & Penge
Deptford needs improvement
Bromley & Chislehurst
Croydon South
Croydon C is inadequate
Croydon N is inadequate
Dulwich & W Norwood
Camberwell & Peckham needs improvement
Vauxhall
Carshalton & Wallington
Uxbridge & S Ruislip
Ealing N
Hammersmith
City & Westminster S
Westminster N

[John Chanin]

West Midlands Region at 27/5/20

Warwickshire
Warwickshire N
Nuneaton
Rugby

West Midlands
Wolverhampton NE
Wolverhampton SW
Wolverhampton SE
Dudley N
Dudley S
Stourbridge

Worcestershire
Wyre Forest
Worcester
Redditch
Mid Worcestershire

Herefordshire
North Herefordshire is a bit light

Shropshire
Telford
Wrekin

Staffordshire
Tamworth
Lichfield
Cannock Chase
Staffordshire S
Stafford
Stone

[John Chanin]

East Midlands at 27/5/20

Derbyshire
Bolsover
Chesterfield

Nottinghamshire
Sherwood
Gedling
Broxtowe
Bassetlaw is inadequate
Nottingham seats are a bit light.

Leicestershire
Loughborough
Bosworth
Charnwood
Leicester W
Leicester E
Leicester S
Leicestershire S
Harborough
Ruland & Melton

Northamptonshire
Daventry
Northamptonshire S
Northampton S
Northampton N
Kettering
Corby
Wellingborough

[John Chanin]

Yorkshire (and the Humber) at 27/5/20

Humber
Cleethorpes
Grimsby
Scunthorpe
Brigg & Goole

South Yorkshire
Doncaster C
Don Valley
Barnsley E

West Yorkshire
Leeds W is a little light

East Yorkshire
Haltemprice & Howden
Hull W & Hessle
Hull N
Hull E

[John Chanin]

North West at 27/5/20

Cheshire
Chester
Eddisbury
Crewe & Nantwich
Ellesmere Port
Halton
Weaver Vale
Warrington S
Warrington N

Greater Manchester
Bolton SE
Manchester Withington needs improvement
Manchester Gorton
Oldham W & Royton
Oldham E & Saddleworth
Ashton under Lyne
Denton & Reddish
Hazel Grove
Wythenshawe & Sale E

Merseyside
Wirral W
Wirral S
Birkenhead
St Helens S & Whiston
St Helens N
Sefton Central needs improvement

Lancashire
Rossendale & Darwen
Burnley
Hyndburn
Blackburn
Lancaster & Fleetwood needs improvement

Cumbria
Westmorland & Lonsdale
Barrow & Furness
Copeland
Workington
Carlisle
Penrith & Border

[John Chanin]

North East at 27/5/20

Cleveland
Redcar
Middlesbrough S & Cleveland E
Middlesbrough
Stockton S
Stockton N
Hartlepool

Durham
Sedgefield
Darlington
Bishop Auckland
Durham City
Durham N
Easington

Tyne & Wear
Houghton & Sunderland S
Washington & Sunderland W
Sunderland C
South Shields
Jarrow
North Tyneside

Northumberland
Hexham needs improvement

[Deleted]

In addition I think we have claims on Wellingborough and the Cumbrian seats, and I believe somebody is working their way through Devon?

I'm afraid I've run out of seats I know well enough to write up.

[bjornhattan]

Unfortunately while I know quite a lot of unclaimed seats at a superficial level (the bulk of the North East, the remaining Berkshire seats, and Swindon and Chippenham in Wiltshire), I wouldn't say I had the deep knowledge required to do any of their profiles justice. If needed I can do a bit of extra research into them but the risk is that the profiles might not be as good.

[jamie]

Busy the next few days but hope to take up Durham afterwards.

[andrewp]

May 27, 2020 16:37:10 GMT @europeanlefty said:

In addition I think we have claims on Wellingborough and the Cumbrian seats, and I believe somebody is working their way through Devon?

I'm afraid I've run out of seats I know well enough to write up.

I’m working my way slowly through Devon, starting in the corner I know best. I’m trying to decide whether I know all the other seats well enough. Foggy was going to do Wells, but I could do that if not. 

I was planning to do Worcester next.