I would like to thank Pete Whitehead for letting me copy his work. I
found it extremly interesting and informative. I will be setting up a
tab up top so I can include sub headings for a break down of each region
which Pete has done. Otherwise it would be one very long post.
For English authorities, the councillors are just those of the district
council - not the county councils. Maybe there is a case for including
the latter but there is a great propensity for county council divisions
to cross constituency boundaries - a problem which does not arise with
district wards, except for a relatively small number of cases where ward
boundary changes have occurred since the last parliamentary boundary
changes.
Where wards are divided between more than one constituency, I
have assigned the ward to the constituency which takes the greatest
part of the electorate. In Scotland and in Northen Ireland I have done
the same with wards/EAs which in a few cases (notably Glasgow and
Edinburgh) is a very blunt intsrument.
On the colouring of the
map, the darker shade for each party indicates they have an overall
majority of councillors within the constituency, the lighter shade
indicates they have a plurality only (including exactly 50% of
councillors). Constituencies coloured white indicate that no party has a
plurality, in other words two or more parties are tied for the most
number of councillors.
In Northern Ireland the shading is different.
Because of the different types of Nationalist and (at least
hypothetically) Unionist there would already be different shades of
orange and Green so I have used dark Green for Sinn Fein, light Green
for the SDLP, Dark Orange for the DUP etc. In practice all the seats in
Northern Ireland are 'won' with a plurality rather than a majority with
the single exception of Belfast West
For a regional breakdown click on the links below.
LONDON
EASTERN
SOUTH EAST
SOUTH WEST
EAST MIDLANDS
WEST MIDLANDS
NORTH WEST
YORKSHIRE & HUMBER
NORTH EAST
SNPS?
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