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Post by swindonlad on Feb 5, 2016 4:39:43 GMT
Devizes always included (up until 1997) quite a bit of Swindon which had spilled outside it's boundaries, though probably this didn't amount to much at the beginning of the period It was more Swindon expanded to join up to parishes, mainly Stratton St Margaret, which were not in the Swindon constituency, but the electoral boundaries didn't keep up. The unparished area of Swindon was the old Swindon constituency. As the main industry was Pressed Steel (now BMW) which produced car bodies, especially for minis, there always was a Labour vote. |
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Post by An Sionnach Flannbhuí on Feb 14, 2016 21:12:25 GMT
Someone may have already done this, but here is some data for the way the counties voted in the 1979 general election. Those of you who are in possession of the 1983 Times Guide to the House of Commons will notice that the full results for the notional 1979 general election calculated by the BBC and ITN is sadly lacking (I've pencilled them in my copy), and that in their county analysis they went for a best fit based on the actual 1979 results instead of using the notional results as they ought to have done. In some happy cases, the 1979 constituency boundaries fit perfectly with the 1974-96 county boundaries. Thus, it would be possible to work out equivalent data for the 1974 elections for these, and for the 1970 notional election results I managed to uncover a few months ago. It may even be possible to go back further still (obviously aside from the island counties), I'm not sure. In the case of Scotland and Wales, I'm not aware if the 1974-83 boundaries matched any of their counties, as the 1983 Times Guide neglected to include the 1979 figures for those. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cNEvPKKqMj7-A3dErDLGmfZAcKwBotkYzgMaxd71gUs/edit?usp=sharingI'm not sure what is being discussed here, but "British Parliamentary Constituencies - A Statistical Compendium" by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox has 1979 notional results for every 1983 constituency. Drawing up a 1979 election by 1972 county should follow on by aggregating those notional results; but I'm not convinced that was the question. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2016 22:50:14 GMT
Someone may have already done this, but here is some data for the way the counties voted in the 1979 general election. Those of you who are in possession of the 1983 Times Guide to the House of Commons will notice that the full results for the notional 1979 general election calculated by the BBC and ITN is sadly lacking (I've pencilled them in my copy), and that in their county analysis they went for a best fit based on the actual 1979 results instead of using the notional results as they ought to have done. In some happy cases, the 1979 constituency boundaries fit perfectly with the 1974-96 county boundaries. Thus, it would be possible to work out equivalent data for the 1974 elections for these, and for the 1970 notional election results I managed to uncover a few months ago. It may even be possible to go back further still (obviously aside from the island counties), I'm not sure. In the case of Scotland and Wales, I'm not aware if the 1974-83 boundaries matched any of their counties, as the 1983 Times Guide neglected to include the 1979 figures for those. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cNEvPKKqMj7-A3dErDLGmfZAcKwBotkYzgMaxd71gUs/edit?usp=sharing"British Parliamentary Constituencies - A Statistical Compendium" by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox has 1979 notional results for every 1983 constituency. Drawing up a 1979 election by 1972 county should follow on by aggregating those notional results Yes, my spreadsheet does just that. I've basically worked out what ought to have been included in the Times Guide to the House of Commons 1983. |
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Post by hullenedge on Sept 5, 2017 23:14:51 GMT
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