Exploratory work mapping election results

These pages are host to some exploratory mapping of British general election results; a joint venture between the SASI research group at Sheffield and Michael Thrasher at the Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre at the University of Plymouth.

Please do not use any of the images from this page without contacting John Pritchard - j.pritchard@sheffield.ac.uk

Animations 1a. General elections winners 1832-2005 1b. Local Council Control 1974-2008: hexagonal cartogram 1c. A cartogram lesson: from normal map to circle cartogram Interactive 2a. General Election 2005 on Google Maps interface 2b. Local Council Control 1974-2008: hexagonal cartogram comparator 2c. Uniform swing interactive map Static Images: British Parliamentary Constituencies, September 2007 3a. Regular map, coloured by notional winner 2005 3b. Regular map, coloured by region 3c. Regular map, coloured by region, labelled PDF (large file) 3d. Gastner/Newman cartogram, coloured by notional winner 2005 3e. Gastner/Newman cartogram, coloured by region 3f. Thomas/Dorling Hexagonal cartogram, coloured by notional winner 2005 3g. Thomas/Dorling Hexagonal cartogram, coloured by region

Notes/credits

Data supplied by Michael Thrasher, Colin Rallings and their team at the Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre at the University of Plymouth, and Danny Dorling at the University of Sheffield.

Cartogram algorithms by Danny Dorling, Bethan Thomas, Mark Newman and Michael Gastner.

Regular map boundaries aggregated from modified versions of ward boundaries supplied by EDINA at Edinburgh University.

All put together by John Pritchard at the University of Sheffield.