To be fair, isn't that a combination the councils themselves have been pushing for?
Also, granted I don't live there, but it really feels to me like it makes more sense to lump Wetherby in with Tadcaster than it does to lump it in with Rothwell.
Very nice. Were the smaller islands also divided into constituencies, or did they elect by bloc vote?
Apartheid-era South African elections are one of the longstanding "holy grail" projects of election mapping - as you say, constituency maps are elusive (it doesn't help that the current system...
This is highly unusual, most of the time most of the countryside is rock-solid for National. You see the same thing in reverse with places like South Auckland, so I don't really think "NZ has no safe seats" is an argument that really holds up for scrutiny.
Remember that that's in modern times. For most of the OTL Middle Ages, the German population was concentrated along the Rhine and in the lowlands - it would take a good long while for the Alpine regions to become a major factor. Of course, IOTL that was beginning to change by the 14th century...
Well, Bavaria and the Centre Party always had a rocky relationship. In general, the "Bavarian" identity was always something quite different from the "German Catholic" identity, at once more right-wing and less ultramontane in its orientation (I think it's summed up well by the old line that the...
Well, I have to say, when the civil war started breaking out I assumed we were going to get a long protracted conflict à la the Spanish Civil War, with Hitler slowly crushing first his rivals on the republican side and then his actual enemies. Both relieved and intrigued to see things evolve in...