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[taimatsu]

I hate to keep posting about the election, but I saw this after following links posted by diffrentcolours and really had to post it. It's a red/blue US map by county, and it's... really quite alarming.

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[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but England looks pretty similar, even during a period of Labour landslide. It's all about population density.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/furniture/vote2001/results_constituencies/maps/uk.gif

[ewx.livejournal.com]

You don't get the beautiful grid effect in the middle of the UK, though.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

England looks pretty similar

England? That's a mep of the whole UKofGB&NI, Mr JDC.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Yes, and it doesn't look similar, because Scotland and Wales are big but not blue. A map of the UK is what I happened to have handy, since England is a subset of the UK, it should be possible for someone with a rudimentary grasp of geography to imagine what a map of England alone would look like.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, my grasp of geography is well below rudimentary, you see.

[inskauldrak.livejournal.com]

applez has a link to a sit that crossreferences that with other sources based on votes cast... it's a lot more purple.

And as Mr JDC points out, it's also about population density. If you look at his map link, areas like London look small but have a lot of people and seats.

Likewise, a good two fiths or so of the scottish population live in the west/central belt.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

State by State there were cartograms at electoral-vote.com, but not county by county.