Top 100 most UKIP-friendly Conservative-held seats in the country: <<< link to info
92 Labour seats which could fall to UKIP <<< link for Labour seats
A great piece of work from @election_data
See more great maps at http://election-data.blogspot.co.uk/
UKIP director of communications Patrick O’Flynn was asked yesterday to
reflect on the local elections and to project forward to the general
election in 2015. His responses revealed something of the approach the
party will use to identify where it intends to focus a good deal of its
resources. First he said, “[W]e’re getting the clusters of candidates
elected as councillors and the target seat list is becoming clearer
before our eyes”. Clearly this is a reference to 2014 but also to last
year’s county elections. He went further a little later: “[W]e’re going
to be having twenty to thirty target seats [in 2015] and if you put
together the clusters [of councillors] we got in last year’s county
elections with the ones we’ve got this year, you can have a pretty good
guess at where they are”.
Well, I have done just that, and the map below shows the clusters of
seats won by UKIP in 2013 and 2014, together with the constituencies in
which they sit. The party has won seats elsewhere but I have taken Mr
O’Flynn at this word and concentrated on just those seats where the
party have won “clusters”. The results reveal a good number of seats
around The Wash, areas already identified by Rob Ford and Matthew
Goodwin in their book “Revolt on the Right”, but also in Essex, Kent,
the Forest of Dean, the Midlands in Dudley, Cannock Chase and
Wolverhampton, and further north in and around Rotherham.
The full list (40) of seats is as follows:
Bexhill and Battle, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Boston and Skegness,
Broadland, Cannock Chase, Castle Point, Chichester, Clacton,
Cleethorpes, Dudley North, Eastleigh, East Worthing and Shoreham,
Folkestone and Hythe, Forest of Dean, Gosport, Great Grimsby, Great
Yarmouth, Harwich and North Essex, Havant, Lewes, Louth and Horncastle,
North East Cambridgeshire, North Norfolk, North Thanet, North West
Cambridgeshire, North West Norfolk, Penistone and Stocksbridge,
Portsmouth North, Rayleigh and Wickford, Rotherham, Rother Valley,
Sittingbourne and Sheppey, Southend West, South Basildon and East
Thurrock, South Holland and The Deepings, South West Norfolk, Thurrock,
Waveney, Wentworth and Dearne, and Wolverhampton South East