I’ve done some visualisations of voting patterns in Birmingham at the 2014 council elections. Head over to The Data Mine to see the full set, and if you want to leave comments, put them here, as the company website doesn’t allow commenting!
Visualisation of Voting in Birmingham Council Elections 2014
See more details on each ward and party on The Data Mine. Comments welcome below…
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I’d be interested to see the “% of Vote, Ordered by XXX Party Votes” visualisations on a map of the wards somehow. What are the geographic trends?
How would it make sense? One for each party; decreasing opacity of ward in proportion to % of vote?
Nice idea Nikki – One map of whole city per party with wards coloured & opacity according to % of vote. e.g some would be deep red, some pale red on the Labour map. I had wondered about mini-pie charts super-imposed on a map, but I’m not sure how effective that would be. Probably won’t get chance to try as I’ve proper work to get on with this Bank Hol!
Do you have the total votes cast for each of the parties? Not on BCC website. Thanks.
I’ve just uploaded a chart with % of vote & number of votes for each party in Brum as a whole. All the figures are derived from BCC website.
Note that Stockland Green polled no Green votes because they had no Green candidate. I’d have voted Green given the chance to do so.
needs to be re-done with the percentage who didn’t vote included in each diagram, I suspect couldn’t be bothered would win every ward but it might more accurately represent the so called UKIP surge as being a minority of a minority
Quite agree – I’ve added a chart at the top showing the overall % of people not voting (or spoiling votes) in each ward. I also saw this relevant link today http://www.blog.rippedoffbritons.com/2014/05/what-is-secret-of-ukips-success-its.html tweeted by @lynnejones_exMP
Can you do something similar for the UK with European results? We need some images that don’t present purple dominance!
Great stuff but I find stacked graphs hard to interpret as in this use for exampleit is hard to compare each party across wards.
Brilliant thanks for making this. It’s very interesting.