Stuart 
It is the regional variation that I find interesting. Scotland has the SNP. Northern England and Wales are Reform. The eastern half of London is Green. Rest of England is Conservative.
Andy Davies@slowe Would be interesting to match it up with economic depravation
That's where Reform seems to do well and matches my knowledge of the South Wales Valleys for example
Seems to be a reaction against the status quo as I can't really believe the working class of the valleys think rich, privately educated white men are going to their standard of living
@andydavies Yes, I think there will be correlation with people thinking they are reacting against the status quo by supporting rich, influential men.
It can't only be deprivation given that the deprived parts of London behave differently.
Perceived distance to power (and from Government power/spending) will be part of it.
But it is unavoidable that racism/bigotry is also a factor. Most of our politics is happy to stoke bigotry as a way to misdirect blame from the powerful.
@andydavies In the decades leading up to 2016 I watched how our Establishment blamed the EU for things; often things our Government had pushed through in the EU so they could blame "Them" for the result. I watched them also blame "immigrants" for things. So much blame deflection. In the first half of 2016 I pointed out (to many people supporting Brexit) that once Brexit happened it'd be harder to blame the EU so the Establishment would become even more extreme at blaming marginalised folks.
Constituencies where the winner got more than 50% of the vote (not to be confused with electorate). Only 96 MPs got more than 50%.
#GE2024 #hexmap
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪@slowe In the UK it is the FPTP system that delivers a majority of seats in parliament, not the people's votes.
@villavelius You seem to be telling me what we all know. Perhaps you decided I don't know and you feel compelled to inform me as if I'm stupid. Perhaps you are annoyed that I'd even consider visualising things like this. Whatever the reason, this is classic "reply guy" behaviour. Perhaps don't.
@slowe It's an artefact of Mastodon that boosting a post with a comment looks like a reply, as the option of adding a comment to a boost without using the reply button does not exist as far as I know. I'm sorry if you are offended by that.
@slowe If there is such an option, please enlighten me.
@villavelius "offended", no. Fed up of reply guys, yes. Fed up of reply guys basically saying "this is just how the tech works". You are a person. You choose what to do. And you know it is a reply to me even if, in your head, you are using it for something different.
@slowe Thank you for your explanation, although it's not much of a useful enlightenment for me.
@villavelius You may not have intended to be patronising but that's what happened until you actually explained why you'd done this. Just letting you know so you could be aware of that and, perhaps, avoid doing it to others in future.
@slowe Do you know how to boost a post on Mastodon to your own followers with an added comment? If so, please tell me. My experience is that outside of Britain few people seem to realise the peculiarities of the FPTP system, so an explanatory boost seemed reasonable.
@villavelius You could copy a link to my post and put that in your comment post like an RT used to be. Or, if you really must use a reply at least make it clear to the person/people you reply at that you aren't just being patronising at them.
@slowe Ok, this is helpful. I guess my transition from Twitter wasn't yet complete. You may wish to consider gently guiding your 'reply guys' rather than berating them, unless you feel that trying to be helpful is patronising, of course.
@villavelius I spent 20 years already trying to give my time to reply guys to get them to think. It is very tiring giving so much effort to people who very rarely appreciate it. The constant entitlement to time and attention is draining. Often it feels deliberately so.
@villavelius I feel that being replied at to be told how the UK elections work on a very basic level is patronising. When you choose to start an interaction with a total stranger it is up to you to think first. To consider what you are doing and how.
@slowe I appreciate the help, and would have appreciated it even more had it come earlier in our exchange.
@villavelius I'm travelling and attending a conference. As I said, you are demanding time and I've given you quite a bit.
Simon Brooke@slowe According to a chart on the Electoral Reform Society's website, one Labour MP won with only about 27% of the total vote. Sadly, I haven't yet found who and where, but this is extraordinary.
Edward T Croft@simon_brooke @slowe It was South West Norfolk (Truss's seat).
Election Maps UK has a good spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xU271-9pfNYR4k_bvpZC1gz9m4_Yc1_XJkhec4iywUk/edit?gid=1507551737#gid=1507551737
ElectionMapsUK GE2024 Supersheet
GE2024 RESULTS Constituency + 2019 Notional Result,Code,Region,Electorate,Turnout,LAB,CON,RFM,LDM,GRN,SNP,PLC,IND,WPGB,SDP,Localist,DUP,SF 33.8%,23.7%,14.3%,12.2%,6.7%,2.5%,0.7%,1.8%,0.7%,0.1%,0.1%,0.6%,0.7% 9699899,6818749,4112161,3502266,1935573,708759,194811,520308,203720,31288,35140,172058,2...
@simon_brooke You're welcome! It's a great resource. @electionmapsuk is excellent, but unfortunately they're only active on Twitter. (I use Nitter when I want to see polls / results from them.)
@slowe Do you know how that differs to previous elections?
Looking at the way the Tory vote was split in some constituencies (and even Labour in some cases) I’m wondering if the proportion was higher before
@andydavies I'm about to join an unconference. Hopefully https://open-innovations.org/projects/who-has-a-majority/ helps
@slowe Thanks… it does…
Craig Grannell@slowe including a surprising number of Lib Dems, given that for several elections now most had small majorities.
@craiggrannell Yep. Similarly half the Green constituencies.
@slowe indeed. Bristol as a surprise, if I’m honest. Not that the Greens won, but the margin. But I always felt the Labour will win Brighton Pav was overplayed. Yes, the Greens on the council were unpopular and Lucas was amazing. But Berry is well known and to me always felt like a “OK, we’ll give you a shot” candidate. (She has a lot to live up to, mind, and may not have the presence of Lucas, simply due to not having to be everything for that party.)
Chris D.@slowe Crikey, fascinating. LD finishing second in only 27 is incredible, compared to elections in the past where they must have finished second in so many more seats. Thank you (pl.) for making and sharing!
Tempting to wonder how much more representative a set of two-member constituencies would be, depending on what the rules chosen for returning two candidates from the same party. (Even more members per constituency would be more representative still, obvs.)
johanna, at the cafe counter@slowe interesting! And unfortunately, as in Canada, made entirely irrelevant by FPTP electoralism.
@Johannab It definitely doesn't affect who gets power. But it is a relevant bit of context. When people *only* consider FPTP results they get a misleading/distorted understanding of the underlying situation. Which can surprise them later.