ok i hadn't quite gathered that this really does substantively affect political outcomes:
like most of australias poorest electorates are rural and are glued onto the coalition
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2022/apr/28/in-2019-inequality-was-a-big-federal-election-issue-now-its-off-the-radar
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RT @pawnofcthulhu
playing around with population weighted density data in order to kill the "Australia is more ur…
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1516863903560519687
the british labor party just kind of sucks at winning in areas that are upper middle/upper income
after 2022 the coalition holds less that a quarter of seats in the top income quintile, completely different world
some pretty heavy cost of living adjustment here presumably otherwise im confused where London is
using seifa data to get something similar in spirit (looks like the abs e.g. tries to adjust for retirees perhaps not being as poor as their income says on paper)
we clearly had a blue wall but it was nothing on this scale and well... not anymore
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RT @undertheraedar
While I'm waiting for the next round of election results, I decided to update my UK-wide 'deprivation/constituency' chart using new data.
It's up to date following the Hartlepool result, and has constituency names on the graphic this time.
https://twitter.com/undertheraedar/status/1390632762105806856