Sg1
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Post by Sg1 on Sept 7, 2023 20:27:42 GMT
Also the Walsall council contains Aldridge Brownhills, which must contribute a lot to their local support in the borough
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Post by manchesterman on Sept 7, 2023 21:01:41 GMT
I didnt quote the post as it was a huge one, but is there any significance in the fact that all 3 seats the Tories won in Sunderland were named after Saints; or is it sheer coincidence? What's in a name??
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Post by bjornhattan on Sept 7, 2023 21:37:56 GMT
I didnt quote the post as it was a huge one, but is there any significance in the fact that all 3 seats the Tories won in Sunderland were named after Saints; or is it sheer coincidence? What's in a name?? It's not a perfect link; they didn't win St Anne's (though admitted they did in 2021). To answer the question though, it's essentially a coincidence but not entirely. The "saint" names all cover parts of Sunderland itself, whereas the non-Sunderland wards all have much more geographical names. The latter are the areas where Labour has tended to retain its support more effectively - in Sunderland proper voters appear more volatile (and in the case of St Michael's they have always been quite Tory, it's one of the dwindling number of inner city affluent areas that still elects Conservative councillors).
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Georg Ebner
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Post by Georg Ebner on Sept 7, 2023 22:00:34 GMT
I didnt quote the post as it was a huge one, but is there any significance in the fact that all 3 seats the Tories won in Sunderland were named after Saints; or is it sheer coincidence? What's in a name?? P.FLORENSKIJ, whom the OrthoDox Church of Russia has sanctified (not sure about His orthoDoxy, but He was certainly a martyr by dying because of being a priest), wrote a book on nomen est omen, i.e. the symbolic value of "Names". Which should not be idolized, but it makes often quite a difference in a person's development, whether a girl is called by her surRounding "Elizabeth" or just "Liz", a boy "Alexander" or only "Alex".
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Khunanup
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Post by Khunanup on Sept 8, 2023 22:15:07 GMT
That Portsmouth map is historic. The Conservatives have never before won less than two seats at a council election, and that is the lowest ever combined total for wards won by Labour and Conservative combined. Alongside that, the most won by independents or non-national localist political parties at least since WWII. The lowest number of seats Conservatives have ever held in Portsmouth is 6. If this year's result is repeated they will be down to 4 (which at this point I'd say would be odds on).
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Post by johnloony on Sept 12, 2023 12:48:25 GMT
How many constituencies do you have to travel through in order to get to the coastline? If you are in a constituency which has a coastline, it counts as 1. In drawing the map I made an arbitrary executive definition which is that the coastal constituencies in Essex and Kent "have a coastline" whereas the constituencies at the eastern end of London only count as being next to the River Thames (and therefore are adjacent to each other) but do not "have a coastline". In other words, the border between the river and the sea is the boundary of Greater London. The colour-coding is as in snooker: red = 1, yellow = 2 etc. Brown (4) is represented by orange, and black (7) is represented by dark grey. 8 is white. On the current / old boundaries, there is only 1 constituency with a score of 8 (Hampstead & Highgate). On the new boundaries, there are 3 constituencies which have a score of 8 (they are Ealing Southall, Brentford & Isleworth, Hammersmith & Chiswick).
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Post by johnloony on Sept 12, 2023 12:53:05 GMT
I think I posted the old map somewhere on the forum but I can't find it, so here it is again: the current constituency boundaries in which Hampstead & Highgate is the only one 8 constituencies away from the coastline.
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Post by johnloony on Sept 12, 2023 13:13:38 GMT
While I was looking for the other one, I found this map. I have no memory of making it, or why, or when. How many constituencies is each constituency away from Staffordshire South constituency?
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Post by johnloony on Sept 12, 2023 13:21:30 GMT
Clans
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Post by johnloony on Sept 12, 2023 14:46:29 GMT
A possible idea for re-partitioning Northern Ireland to align with majority areas of the two communities. Following the yellow line version would allow West Belfast to be included in the Nationaliust / Republican area, without needing to be a detached exclave.
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ilerda
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Post by ilerda on Sept 12, 2023 18:10:23 GMT
That little highly Catholic corner of North Antrim must hate being so dominated by the DUP surrounding areas.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 12, 2023 19:38:08 GMT
That little highly Catholic corner of North Antrim must hate being so dominated by the DUP surrounding areas. Didn't it used to be said that Ian Paisley regularly won Rathlin island, their ballot box being easily identifiable as it had to come over by boat and was always the last to arrive?
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Crimson King
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Post by Crimson King on Sept 13, 2023 7:41:07 GMT
That little highly Catholic corner of North Antrim must hate being so dominated by the DUP surrounding areas. Didn't it used to be said that Ian Paisley regularly won Rathlin island, their ballot box being easily identifiable as it had to come over by boat and was always the last to arrive? wouldn’t it anyway, or is it different in NI
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Sept 13, 2023 10:38:37 GMT
I've been neglecting this thread, so here are the councils which have had LEAP updates in the last month. It's been a busy month. South Lanarkshire 2022 I'd missed that you'd stopped showing the parties who won seats on the maps for Scottish councils. When did you change? I can't say the images were necessarily visually appealing, but they were quite a good way of getting information across.
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Post by johnloony on Sept 13, 2023 16:33:39 GMT
While I was looking for the other one, I found this map. I have no memory of making it, or why, or when. How many constituencies is each constituency away from Staffordshire South constituency?] I don’t remember why or when I made that map, but I think I can remember why I chose Staffordshire South as the central point: because Staffordshire South has borders with more parliamentary constituencies than any other.
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Post by andrewteale on Sept 13, 2023 21:34:46 GMT
I've been neglecting this thread, so here are the councils which have had LEAP updates in the last month. It's been a busy month. South Lanarkshire 2022 I'd missed that you'd stopped showing the parties who won seats on the maps for Scottish councils. When did you change? I can't say the images were necessarily visually appealing, but they were quite a good way of getting information across. I stopped doing it for 2017, mainly because they weren't very easy to put together.
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Post by weld on Sept 14, 2023 5:38:24 GMT
I'd missed that you'd stopped showing the parties who won seats on the maps for Scottish councils. When did you change? I can't say the images were necessarily visually appealing, but they were quite a good way of getting information across. I stopped doing it for 2017, mainly because they weren't very easy to put together. I appreciate it, as do my eyes. It's nice not having so many migraines
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Post by andrewteale on Sept 24, 2023 22:55:58 GMT
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Post by weld on Sept 29, 2023 8:10:59 GMT
How the forum predicted 2019's election: www.yapms.com/app/?m=1c7j. Boris Johnson's Tories win three more seats than David Cameron's in 2015... Tl;dr: CON 333, LAB 226, SNP 42, LD 23, PC 5 etc etc.
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Post by andrewteale on Oct 3, 2023 19:26:32 GMT
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