Tag: Present day

• Born and bred? How local are MPs, 1832 to 2024

  

  Where 10,094 MPs were born, set against the seats they won. For 170 years about a quarter were born in their seat’s county; since 2010 that has climbed to 41.9%.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Birthplaces, Britain, elections, history, Parliament, population, Present day, Twentieth century, UK, Victorian, Wikidata

• Has your surname left home?

  

  Where 133,761 notable Britons with each surname were born, 1800s against since 1950. Welsh Joneses, Cornish Tre- names and place-name surnames are all leaving home, though not as fast as you might think.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Birthplaces, Britain, Cornwall, Famous people, history, Migration, place names, population, Present day, UK, Victorian, Wales, Wikidata

• Mentioned in the House: which places does Parliament talk about?

  

  A century of Hansard, counted place by place: 297,134 Commons mentions of UK towns and cities since 1909, which places punch above their weight, and who names your constituency.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Hansard, Parliament, Present day, Public attention, Text mining, Twentieth century, UK

• Signature species: what makes your county’s wildlife special?

  

  I sorted 60.9 million open wildlife records into 118 vice counties to find the species each one records far more often than the rest of Britain and Northern Ireland.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Data bias, Ireland, Location quotient, Present day, UK, wildlife

• Who won here? Every UK general election since 1832 on one map

  

  All 49 UK general elections from 1832 to 2024 on one map: 31,736 seats, the forgotten uncontested elections, the Liberal fall, the four nations and the Red Wall.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, elections, Electoral results, Georgian, history, maps, Parliament, political parties, Present day, Twentieth century, UK, Victorian