London's Political Landscapes
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2041-9066.2012.00099.x |
| Published date | 01 April 2012 |
| Date | 01 April 2012 |
London’s political landscapes
In Focus
Special thanks to Michael Thrasher of the University of Plymouth for data used in this piece.
2012 is not only the year of the London
Olympics. In May, Londoners will decide
on who they want to see leading their city
for the next four years. The 2008 mayoral
election in London was won by the Con-
servative candidate Boris Johnson, who
secured over 50 per cent of the votes, after
second preferences are taken into account.
But the political message from the last elec-
tion goes beyond the usual fight between
the Labour and Conservative parties over
who has power in Britain’s capital.
This map series shows the specific distri-
bution of first preference votes for each of
the candidates and their respective political
party in the 2008 mayoral election mapped
onto an equal population projection, where
every Londoner is given exactly the same
amount of space in the map. Instead of
showing the total shares in comparison,
the maps take the maximum share of votes
into account. The range of votes is shown
in five graduated circles based on a natural
breaks classification that highlights the vari-
ance of the particular support for a party’s
candidate across London.
Although the candidates of the smaller
parties hardly stood a chance of taking over
the job that currently pays an annual salary
of £143,911, the electorate that voted for
these candidates is just as concentrated
in particular clusters across the city as are
those supporters of the two main political
camps. The geographical relevance of
these patterns is a manifestation of the
socioeconomic patchwork of a divided city.
Ahead of this year’s vote, Benjamin Hennig and Danny Dorling look at the geography of the 2008 London
mayoral election.
3.2 2.8 1.6
42.5 36.4
9.7
0.91 0.68 0.44
(Columns represent 1st preference vote share in %, on a logarithmic scale)
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