Scotland has 59 out of the total 650 consituencies that make up the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster, to which a single member (‘MP’) is elected every 5 years or so (very roughly speaking). Obviously this is a political process with an unpredictable outcome, but this map is about visually connecting the general, geographic & electoral knowledge resources about the consituency that remain valid no matter who is currently elected.
It’s all over bar the shouting for another 5 years (aye, right!), so we can now update our 2019 UK Parliament General Election CANDIDATES Knowledge Atlas with the actual RESULTS, now that all of Scotland’s 59 constituencies have declared.
So all the previously blank cells in the embedded recent election results spreadsheets have been filled in for each Scottish constituency, the successfully elected candidate seed branches ‘flagged & tagged’, and their shiny new majorities embedded as single data fields.
However though the UK Parliament will open it’s doors again on monday the 16th of December, it will take a few days for each victorious candidate to be sworn in as an MP, and so officially re-constitute it. It will then take several weeks for all the online knowledge resources to catch up, especially for the new MPs elected for the first time. Thus even though it won’t take long to publish an updated version of our General, Geographic & Electoral Knowledge Atlas for Constituencies, we wll have to leave it for a month or so until mid January 2020 before we can publish an updated version of our Scottish Constituencies & Members – Political Knowledge Atlas, but in the meanwhile this map will tell you “who’s who and who’s new, doon the road in the Big Hoose”, with all the embedded and attached knowledge resources still available for those who have been previously.