When the EU Referendum was conducted in June of last year, the results were declared by local authority in line with protocol for referenda. But with General Election 2017 now upon us, and one that will be fought around the issue of Brexit, the distribution of Leave votes by parliamentary constituency is potentially significant -…
OK. We’ll be honest. Like you, that took us by surprise. The file labelled ‘general election plan’ contained precisely nothing. The prime minister had said there would be no snap election, and we believed her. As did our journalist colleagues at Politics.co.uk. Well however mad or shrewd she may be, here we are just seven…
We’ve managed to get our hands on some fantastic UK property market data. Using the House of Commons Library’s data resources, we’ve mapped average house prices across the UK by Parliamentary Constituency. The data available to us reaches as far back as 1995, giving you a 20 year period to examine market fluctuations across the…
The forthcoming Local Government Association conference seems like an appropriate reason to reflect on how data has the power to change the way we interact with our elected representatives. Accurate data is crucial to informed decision making, but getting relevant data in front of our MPs and our councillors can be a difficult task. There…
There’s a certain European ‘thing’ going on at the moment that’s taking up a lot of people’s attention. However, we feel strongly that there’s another European ‘thing’ that should instead be in the forefront of people’s minds – our European map. Yes, we’re delighted to be able to tell you that we’ve developed a European…
We’ve taken ONS data from 2014 to map age profiles by UK parliamentary constituency.
We’ve used the House of Commons Library resources to map 2016 gross weekly pay by parliamentary constituency using our fantastic data visualisation tool, PoliMapper. Figures show median earnings for people living in the constituency (rather than people whose workplace is in the constituency) – some people may travel in or out of the constituency to…
With the EU referendum just around the corner on 23 June 2016, we’ve used multiple sources to bring you the most up to date information on how MPs are likely to vote. Our interactive map shows that currently 458 MPs are likely to vote to remain, 147 to leave, whilst 45 are undecided (correct on…
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published data on the prevalence of zero hours contracts among the workforce in the UK. We have used their regional data to create an interactive map showing zero hours contracts in different parts of the country.
The telecoms regulator Ofcom today published a report setting out the next steps in a strategy designed to make the UK a world-leading digital economy. Among it’s calls are for BT to open up its network so that competitors can connect to homes and offices, the reform of BT’s network infrastructure company Openreach and measures…