Over to the right you should now see a link that says “Election results from the Golden Age of Capitalism”. Click on it and you’ll find lists of the average Labour vote in each constituency for all elections between 1955 and 1970. I’d have liked to have included the 1951 and 1951 elections, but there were significant boundary changes in a few years before the 1955 election so…
Anyway, the basic idea is taken from the Six Election Average in Pelling’s Social Geography of British Elections, although for this period it makes more sense to use the Labour vote than the Conservative one. In this period, as in 1885-1910, there were only two candidates in each constituency. Therefore an average vote of over 50% would indicate that a constituency was Labour more often than not, one over, say, 55% would indicate that the constituency was a safe seat and so on and so forth. Needless to say it isn’t nearly as accurate in areas in which Liberals or minority parties were active, but it’s still useful. Eventually maps will be made.
Things will be updated on a fairly regular basis.
July 18, 2008 at 4:54 pm |
You clearly wanted to include the 1951 election so much you want to list it twice!
“I’d have liked to have included the 1951 and 1951 elections”