Last Friday the AEC released the final Queensland electoral boundaries for the next federal election. These boundaries include a small number of changes from the draft boundaries, and Antony Green has posted updated notional margins for each seat based on the 2007 election results. You can download the new boundaries as a Google Earth map here. I will also update the pendulum on the federal election guide tonight to include Queensland electorates.
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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.
With Germany voting next week to elect a new Bundestag, I thought people might find these maps of the German results from the European Parliament election interesting. They are available on the website of the Federal Returning Officer, and show the level of support for each party by state and district, as well as maps showing who won each district and state. My favourite map has been posted below, which shows the level of support for the Left Party in each district. Notice a pattern?
I’m happy to report that I have now finished the English part of my UK House of Commons electoral map. I have uploaded it to the maps page, and you can download it here. This is the final version of the map as I plan to keep the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish maps as separate files. I have now started work on the Welsh map.
So I’ve started working on a project that I will reveal in a few weeks’ time as part of this blog. One of the things I am doing is making booth maps of each federal electorate. I have made three so far, and on each one I have designed the map differently. I thought I’d post them all so people can let me know what is the best way to design these maps.
First, this map is Solomon. On it you can see Darwin and Palmerston. This map is higher-resolution, which means when reduced to the same size as the later maps, the numbers are quite small, and you need to blow up the map to read it’s information. I plan to fix that. But the point with this map is that booths are coloured according to which party won the booth, and what % of the 2PP that party got in that booth.
Next is Fraser. Now, almost all of Fraser’s booths were won by Labor, so I changed the design. Instead, all booths show the ALP % (including those won by the Liberals) and the colouring shows booths according to whether they were more or less pro-ALP than the seatwide total. Does this make sense? Or does it confuse people into thinking the Liberals won all those booths?
Finally, Canberra. In this case, I reverted to the colour scheme of Solomon while still showing all booths according to how much of the 2PP vote Labor won. However, I also scaled the booths according to the number of votes cast.
So what do you think? Which features work best? I plan to do these for almost every electorate in the country (although a few, such as Lingiari, are impossible to show meaningfully in such a format)
So I’m still working on my UK House of Commons map, and I’ve reached the Scottish border! As the map below shows, I have now completed 7 of the 9 regions of England, after just finishing North West. I only have yet to do North East and Yorkshire and the Humber, as well as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. I’ve uploaded the latest version on the maps page.
I’ve added one more map tonight to my Google Earth maps collection. I have put together the map for the 2006 South Australian state election. This is the only map that currently applies to an Australian parliament that I hadn’t completed, and paves the way for more analysis of next March’s South Australian election. I previously made a map showing the 2010 boundaries which is available on the Maps page. You can download the 2006 map here.
I have still been working on my map for the next United Kingdom general election in 2010. I have now finished six of the nine regions of England: South East, South West, Greater London, East, East Midlands and West Midlands. This adds up to 375 seats out of 533 in England and 650 across the entire UK. I’ve uploaded the latest version which you can download from the Maps page.
I was looking the boundaries of the federal seat of Grayndler earlier today when I noticed that all five state electorates that overlap with Grayndler are held by female MPs, along with a number of other neighbouring seats. I thought it would be interesting to get an idea of how the gender balance in the Legislative Assembly is distributed geographically.
There are 25 women in the NSW Legislative Assembly, out of a total of 93 MLAs. Each party has the following gender balances:
I’m still working on my map of UK House of Commons constituencies for the next general election. I recently finished the East of England, for a total of 270 constituencies out of 650. As you can see below, this map now covers the southern half of England.
In addition, I’ve also gone through most of my electoral maps and improved the colouring for each map to make the colours brighter and easier to see. Hopefully these will be more useful for people. The maps I have updated include state and federal electoral maps for Australia, the Canadian House of Commons, the US House of Representatives and the New Zealand Parliament.
