Timeline for 2024 UK election: What connects the regions where Liberal Democrats succeeded?
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| Jul 18 at 10:17 | comment | added | ohwilleke♦ | "they're large constituencies with lower populations." This said, all of England is still pretty densely populated compared to even many urban parts of the U.S. For example, the whole of England (excluding Wales and Scotland) has a 48% greater population density than the Atlanta metropolitan area. | |
| Jul 18 at 10:11 | comment | added | Ian Sudbery | I think the point about industry in the answer is important. Labour is traditionally strong in regions that are industrial or post-industrial. The LDs are strong where the ecconomy is not (and has not been in the last century) primarily driven by heavy industry. | |
| Jul 18 at 9:26 | comment | added | Probably | @Separatrix Something to do with local councils was my top theory but I'm again not sure why they should be winning more local votes in South West as opposed to the East. The Whig theory sounds very intriguing but I still don't see a clear geographical connection. Wiki implies an inverse logic for Whigs' later years: Tories = landowners; Whigs = mercantiles. | |
| Jul 8 at 11:05 | comment | added | Separatrix | @Probably you just need to go back further in time. The Lib Dems are one of the descendants of the old Liberal (Whig) party against whom Labour are the new upstarts. In a more modern sense, where Labour and the Conservatives don't have a fundamental core demographic it's a more open race, and the Lib Dems have the best campaigners on the ground. They also hold a lot of the local councils in the regions where they've now taken the parlimentary seat. | |
| Jul 6 at 7:49 | comment | added | Probably | @hobbs That sounds even less random :) Although I still don't know what is the cause | |
| Jul 6 at 6:41 | comment | added | hobbs | @Probably generally it's the guys who came first a while further back. | |
| Jul 6 at 6:37 | comment | added | Probably | Makes sense but I assume it's not random which party came second | |
| Jul 5 at 14:57 | comment | added | Separatrix | @Probably you're looking at demographics but those take second place to traditional power bases and FPTP weaknesses. If you want to get rid of your current MP, you vote for the party who came second last time | |
| Jul 5 at 14:14 | comment | added | Probably | Good point, although not what I was interested in. Clarified the question. | |
| Jul 5 at 9:04 | history | edited | Separatrix | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 5 at 8:58 | history | answered | Separatrix | CC BY-SA 4.0 |