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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2018 23:37:40 GMT
I'm going to have a go at gerrymandering the entire country in favour of the Labour Party, starting with the the South West as that's where I live. This wasn't too difficult, as it's mostly about splitting strong Labour areas into as many seats as possible while still winning them. _ How many Labour seats do you think you have managed to create in the south west? According to my spreadsheet, it's 39 Tory, 12 Labour and 1 LibDem. However, there's a seat in Gloucestershire with a Tory majority of around 2,000 and a similar one inV Devon where I made a mess of Exeter. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2018 23:43:07 GMT
Exeter
Exeter South & Exmouth (green): Labour majority of about under 1,000 assuming that the St Loyes ward would go Labour, rather than Tory as suggested by electoral calculus. at local level, it's mostly Labour, but had no minority party candidate last time, which means Electoral calculus decided that nobody there had voted for the independent in Devon East. Exeter North (pink): I screwed up this one and ended up with a small Tory majority. Any suggestions?
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Post by andrewp on Mar 31, 2018 23:47:48 GMT
Exeter
Exeter South & Exmouth (green): Labour majority of about under 1,000 assuming that the St Loyes ward would go Labour, rather than Tory as suggested by electoral calculus. at local level, it's mostly Labour, but had no minority party candidate last time, which means Electoral calculus decided that nobody there had voted for the independent in Devon East. Exeter North (pink): I screwed up this one and ended up with a small Tory majority. Any suggestions? Trying to get 2 Labour seats out of Exeter is tricky I would have thought. Can you get Newton Abbott in with a bit of Exeter? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2018 0:00:35 GMT
Plymouth
However I cut this up, I couldn't create two Labour seats, so I created Plymouth South with a Labour majority of over 7,000 and Plymouth North with a similar sized Con majority.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2018 0:01:49 GMT
Exeter
Exeter South & Exmouth (green): Labour majority of about under 1,000 assuming that the St Loyes ward would go Labour, rather than Tory as suggested by electoral calculus. at local level, it's mostly Labour, but had no minority party candidate last time, which means Electoral calculus decided that nobody there had voted for the independent in Devon East. Exeter North (pink): I screwed up this one and ended up with a small Tory majority. Any suggestions? Trying to get 2 Labour seats out of Exeter is tricky I would have thought. Can you get Newton Abbott in with a bit of Exeter? Quite possibly, I'll have a look when I can get my laptop to do what I want it to do rather than what it wants to do! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2018 0:04:27 GMT
@europeanlefty I fear you've created a situation where every seat in the region is winnable in a landslide year for the Conservatives! I would much rather go for creating a bank of Labour seats that stop the Conservatives ever getting over 350 seats. Nice maps though. True, but I've turned some seats from Tory to Labour. The main problem is that Bristol should probably have been five seats rather than six, then they would all have been another few thousand safer. I'll have a look in the morning when my brain and my computer can both keep up! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2018 0:06:47 GMT
One final one before I go to bed/chuck my laptop out the window, whichever comes sooner: I managed to create a Labour seat in Western Cornwall out of Labour-voting bits of Redruth, Falmout and Truro. No idea what to call it though.  |
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Post by andrewp on Apr 1, 2018 0:08:00 GMT
One final one before I go to bed/chuck my laptop out the window, whichever comes sooner: I managed to create a Labour seat in Western Cornwall out of Labour-voting bits of Redruth, Falmout and Truro. No idea what to call it though. Cornwall Labour |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2018 14:32:24 GMT
 An alternative versionof Bristol. Five (relatively) safe Lbour seats plus the ultra-Tory Somerset North & Wells. None of these Bristol seats would ever be Tory unless we're in real trouble. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2018 14:48:50 GMT
The North East
24 Labour, 1 Tory (Berwick & The Border, dark yellow). No seat with a Labour majority below 5,000, even around Stockton South/Cleveland where evrything was carefully constructed to split the Tory vote up as much as possible. Attachments:
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Post by jamie on Apr 1, 2018 17:09:18 GMT
What's the best way to upload images? Both Photobucket and Imgur seem unusable. Tried to post as an attachment but image was larger than 1mb.
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Post by robbienicoll on Apr 1, 2018 17:23:31 GMT
What's the best way to upload images? Both Photobucket and Imgur seem unusable. Tried to post as an attachment but image was larger than 1mb. I used a png/jpeg compressor online to reduce mine to under 1mb. Although I'd also like to know what others use to get them larger! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2018 21:23:20 GMT
I'm taking a screenshot and putting it into paint.net. The largest image so far is about 0.8mb.
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Post by tiberius on Apr 18, 2018 18:59:25 GMT
 behold, the East of England Torymander, A.K.A the Chloe Smith Lifetime Employment Act |
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Post by tiberius on Apr 23, 2018 3:49:31 GMT
 Labour Londonmander |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2018 9:01:28 GMT
Labour Londonmander That's fun - but this year the ward boundaries have changed! “Tiberium in Tiberim!”  |
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Post by tiberius on Apr 26, 2018 15:46:06 GMT
Has anyone tried to do the Amber Rudd Lifetime Employment Act*? Switching wards between the constituencies of Hastings and Rye and Bexhill and Battle. Hastings is chopped in two, equally divided between the two seats. Presumably the two seats become Hastings North and Rye and Battle and South Hastings (Battle of Hastings  ) *=Lifetime meaning until she takes her seat in Lords |
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Post by Foggy on Apr 26, 2018 23:51:57 GMT
Has anyone tried to do the Amber Rudd Lifetime Employment Act*? Switching wards between the constituencies of Hastings and Rye and Bexhill and Battle. Hastings is chopped in two, equally divided between the two seats. Presumably the two seats become Hastings North and Rye and Battle and South Hastings (Battle of Hastings ) *=Lifetime meaning until she takes her seat in Lords The Borough of Hastings contains a little (though not much) more than just the town of Hastings, so that leaves the possibility of some more creative nomenclature. If you did want to include compass directions, though, it would be best to call the second seat 'Hastings South and Battle'... even if it ruins your little attempt at wordplay. |
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Post by Khunanup on Apr 27, 2018 0:41:10 GMT
Has anyone tried to do the Amber Rudd Lifetime Employment Act*? Switching wards between the constituencies of Hastings and Rye and Bexhill and Battle. Hastings is chopped in two, equally divided between the two seats. Presumably the two seats become Hastings North and Rye and Battle and South Hastings (Battle of Hastings ) *=Lifetime meaning until she takes her seat in Lords Any split of Hastings borough would make Rudd safer because anything that came in from Rother to replace Hastings wards leaving the constituency would be better for her and worse for Labour. The complete gerrymander would be to split the borough in two and have a St Leonards & Bexhill seat and Hastings East & Rye, or just Hastings & Rye (which would then include loads of rural Rother). Like the similarly sized Lincoln, Labour never want the town to need to much from outside it to make up,the parliamentary seat numbers as that territory is so unremittingly hostile. |
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Post by tiberius on Apr 27, 2018 7:18:15 GMT
  What was the last time any of these four constituencies would have voted Labour? 1997? |
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