Key Question:
Does turnout make a difference to local ward electoral results?
Theory
Supposedly Labour does best in areas where there is high turnout - is this true?
Key Data:
2018 Election results explore here for data sets: https://github.com/CampaignLab/data-pipeline or ask someone who has been before.
Turnout figures can be found here: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/file/0009/245925/Electoral-data-Local-Elections-May-2018.ods
If you want to test this theory against historic election results - they can be found here: https://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/downloads
Task
Start to look for correlations between turnout and the 2018 election results.
Key Question:
Does turnout make a difference to local ward electoral results?
Theory
Supposedly Labour does best in areas where there is high turnout - is this true?
Key Data:
2018 Election results explore here for data sets: https://github.com/CampaignLab/data-pipeline or ask someone who has been before.
Turnout figures can be found here: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/file/0009/245925/Electoral-data-Local-Elections-May-2018.ods
If you want to test this theory against historic election results - they can be found here: https://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/downloads
Task
Start to look for correlations between turnout and the 2018 election results.