There is a map of 1966 circulating out there, but that's a better basemap (and, as you say, most of them miss off NI; I edited some of the existing ones and added NI to make the 1955 and onwards maps here.In a similar way to how I did 1945, I did another election which I haven't really seen mapped that much, 1966. This time, I made sure to add the NI seats, too.
Starting now with the UK's second city, Greater Manchester:
Ryedale - Uhura's Mazda will get drunk pretty quickly if he's still doing that game, as the Continuity Liberals hold three of their four seats in spite of the turnout. The Lib Dems are still on two seats, losing one and gaining another. Independents actually make gains here, though some might be incumbents who left their parties, not sure.
Here it is, the compilation mega-map of Yorkshire and the Humber 2015. Compare to 2011 here.Excellent work. I was wondering what was going on in Greater Manchester. I will have to start putting together a North West compilation map for the ones you're doing at some point. In the meantime I have a little time now to do Yorkshire, so watch this space...
Quite a contrast to 2010 for the parliamentary majorities for the seats covering Ashfield! Two absolute knife-edge majorities both increase, building in opposite directions.Interesting.
Moving on to Nottinghamshire for a couple more:
I'd never realised that the university seats included the university of Wales.
Nice work. Weren't there both Nationals and National Independents in 1945? (Even though they were basically the same thing)
Mega-Yorkshire
Thanks. Yes, it will be interesting to see if UKIP hold together in Rotherham and Doncaster until the next elections (Rotherham all-up 2016, Doncaster all-up 2017).Definitely interesting to see those Labour wards becoming that much paler over the four years - I wonder if its this sort of trend that will start to panic the Labour party or is 2015 going to be a UKIP high point.
Some more of Greater Manchester to share as well
Tameside, wards won staying steady from 2011, but what the map doesn't show is that UKIP moved into a solid 3rd place in the overall vote and had some strong second places. Also surprised at the lack of Lib Dem candidates, with only one standing across the council.
Oldham - no change on wards won from 2011 but UKIP, who had won 2 wards and nearly scraped a 3rd in 2014 find themselves unable to win any wards this year.
Rochdale - All the Labour wards in 2011 which had +40% majorities now find themselves with much reduced majorities due to UKIP, who whilst failing to win a ward in Rochdale, got 25% of the overall vote. Also the Lib Dems win a ward that they hadn't won since 2010, and with a larger majority than in 2010.
I've noticed that before myself!Continuing the councils that look like things series I see Oldham looks like Australia.
The constituency breakdown on that map has Denton & Reddish and Ashton-under-Lyne the wrong way round, I think.