To rule the land: mapping the 2015 general election
The 2015 UK General Election was an unusual election. Can cartography be used to portray that? Let’s start with the winners, the Conservative party. On an equal land area map of the UK their blues dominate almost all of England (Figure 1). Just a few tiny urban pockets are not deep blue. Their domin...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal article |
| Published: |
Society of Cartographers
2016
|
| _version_ | 1797087644624093184 |
|---|---|
| author | Hennig, B Dorling, D |
| author_facet | Hennig, B Dorling, D |
| author_sort | Hennig, B |
| collection | OXFORD |
| description | The 2015 UK General Election was an unusual election. Can cartography be used to portray that? Let’s start with the winners, the Conservative party. On an equal land area map of the UK their blues dominate almost all of England (Figure 1). Just a few tiny urban pockets are not deep blue. Their dominance spreads into Eastern Wales and as far as Pembrokeshire, into the lowlands of Scotland and the Eastern uplands. When you look at the first of the three maps below, it appears as if so many people voted Conservative across so much of the land, then, of course, they should rule the land. But, as the other two maps directly below show, that is not what happened. |
| first_indexed | 2024-03-07T02:38:36Z |
| format | Journal article |
| id | oxford-uuid:a9a76efe-3706-49a4-af11-478b445960bd |
| institution | University of Oxford |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-07T02:38:36Z |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| publisher | Society of Cartographers |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | oxford-uuid:a9a76efe-3706-49a4-af11-478b445960bd2022-03-27T03:09:56ZTo rule the land: mapping the 2015 general electionJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a9a76efe-3706-49a4-af11-478b445960bdSymplectic Elements at OxfordSociety of Cartographers2016Hennig, BDorling, DThe 2015 UK General Election was an unusual election. Can cartography be used to portray that? Let’s start with the winners, the Conservative party. On an equal land area map of the UK their blues dominate almost all of England (Figure 1). Just a few tiny urban pockets are not deep blue. Their dominance spreads into Eastern Wales and as far as Pembrokeshire, into the lowlands of Scotland and the Eastern uplands. When you look at the first of the three maps below, it appears as if so many people voted Conservative across so much of the land, then, of course, they should rule the land. But, as the other two maps directly below show, that is not what happened. |
| spellingShingle | Hennig, B Dorling, D To rule the land: mapping the 2015 general election |
| title | To rule the land: mapping the 2015 general election |
| title_full | To rule the land: mapping the 2015 general election |
| title_fullStr | To rule the land: mapping the 2015 general election |
| title_full_unstemmed | To rule the land: mapping the 2015 general election |
| title_short | To rule the land: mapping the 2015 general election |
| title_sort | to rule the land mapping the 2015 general election |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT hennigb torulethelandmappingthe2015generalelection AT dorlingd torulethelandmappingthe2015generalelection |