I’ve just finished a map of Wales’ new parliamentary constituencies. Wales uses the same fourty constituencies to elect their fourty members of the House of Commons as well as electing fourty of their sixty members of the National Assembly of Wales.
The fourty constituencies are divided into five regions for Assembly elections. Each region elects four top-up AMs. Three of these regions cover eight constituencies, with one covering seven seats and the other covering nine.
Since these maps are used for two purposes, I have uploaded the maps as two separate files. One includes the Assembly region boundaries and seats coloured according to the 2007 Assembly election, while the other uses notional colours based on the 2005 Westminster election.
Maps over the fold.
Welsh Assembly constituencies and regions, showing 2007 election results.
New Westminster constituency boundaries for England and Wales, showing notional votes based on the 2005 general election.
Ah, you switched to the orange. I see what you mean, it’s just not quite right is it? Have you tried using a darker blue for the Tory seats? I’m trying it now with the royal blue and it seems good so far, balances out the darkness of the orange nicely, but I’ve only done it with Wales, South West and West Midlands, so I’ll have to see how it looks when I’ve done them all.
Those Welsh Assembly results look good for Plaid for the elections to the Commons.
Great job with Wales and England
Do you plan to make Scottish and/or Northern Irish seats for Westminster elections?
@Thomas,
Yes, I’m about two-thirds of the way through Northern Ireland now. I’m also planning to go back and do the 1997 boundaries, which would give me the maps for the entirety of the Blair government as well as the original boundaries for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the NI Legislative Assembly.
However, it’s taking a while as I’m doing in between writing the federal election guide and tinkering with my Australian maps.
Wow-a man after my own heart
Well good luck, cant wait for the next installment, its helped my election watching hugely lol
Its annoying how we always change our constituency boundaries :@