{"id":2125,"date":"2012-03-28T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2017-01-19T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:57:35","slug":"in-focus-londons-political-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: London’s political landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PoliticalAhead of this year’s vote we had a look at the geography of the 2008 London mayoral election. In an article for the “In Focus” section of Political Insight<\/a> (April 2012, Volume 3, Issue 1) Danny Dorling and I<\/a> analysed the patterns of first-preference votes at the last election in the UK’s capital city<\/a>.
\nThe map series that I created for this feature displays the distribution of first preference votes shares for each respective party that put up a candidate. This allows not only to see the eventual outcome (which resulted in the then mayor Ken Livingstone of Labour being put into second place but the current mayor Boris Johnson of the Conservatives), but also gave an impression of the distribution of preferences for the smaller political parties within the city, as most voters put their main party preference into their first vote, while giving their second preference to a stronger candidate of the larger parties. The maps are based on a gridded population cartogram of London (as featured in the London in Maps book<\/a>). This is a preview of the maps that we created for the article (a larger version of this map can be found here<\/a>):
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