London Sucks You Lot Inwards & Spits You Lot Out
This calendar week Election Data published an interactive map to visualize the internet migration information for areas of the U.K. to & from London. The map shows whether to a greater extent than people inward each local ascendency expanse inward England movement to London or possess got moved from London into the area. The map too provides a rather swell visualization of why the Conservative Party could hold upward inward problem inward its traditional heartland of the southward east.
Moving inward to together with out of London, 2013-2016 is a choropleth map of information from the Office for National Statistics. The darker colors demonstrate local ascendency areas where in that place is a internet population arrive at from London. Where to a greater extent than people are moving into the expanse from London than are moving to the capital. The lightest colored areas demonstrate local regime where to a greater extent than people are moving to London than emigrating from London.
In meat the map seems to demonstrate that the southward E has had a internet growth inward people moving from London piece some areas of the Midlands together with the due north possess got seen a internet decrease, every bit to a greater extent than people possess got moved from these areas to the capital. It is too provides a rather swell visualization of an Election Data article published this calendar week inward the Guardian newspaper, How the Conservatives lost their abode counties heartland.
In the Guardian article Election Data's Ian Warren argues that the exodus of people inward their 30s together with 40s from London to the southward E is bad intelligence for the Conservative Party, because immature people tend to vote to a greater extent than for the Labour Party. According to the Economist "Conservatives overtake Labour every bit the political party of selection from to a greater extent than or less the historic menses of l inward virtually polls". An influx of immature families into the traditional Tory heartland could thence testify disastrous for the Conservative Party.
