We know the rise of the Greens & ReformUK Ltd has shifted voters away from supporting the Labour Party.

[chrismayla6@zirk.us]

@ReggieHere

Not so sure; I took that to be younger professionals who still hadn't been convinced by the Greens, yet grew up in a social environment were voting right was sees as terminally uncool?

[chrismayla6@zirk.us]

@rozeboosje

yes, that also makes sense

[marjolica@social.linux.pizza]

@rozeboosje @ChrisMayLA6 yes, I recall that article too. Likewise no success in finding it again.

[geofcox@climatejustice.social]

@ReggieHere @ChrisMayLA6
@ApostateEnglishman

The line roughly down the middle of the 2026 diagram also makes the generational divide very clear - and remember this is also an educational divide. The Labour governments of the 60s and 70s introduced comprehensive education and massively expanded higher education - in 1960 less than 5% of kids went to university, in 2019 over 50% went.

[androcat@toot.cat]

@ReggieHere @ChrisMayLA6

I think I figured it out.
So the background colourings are a bit misleading. What is displayed is the wards (those granules in darker colour).
And the granules are tracked in two axes, by the population:
% managerial, and % aged 50.
So the wards haven't moved around a lot, because demographics haven't changed much.
Then the wards were colorized according to leading party, and given an imaginary "territory" to contextualize (the background colours). So you may well be right.

[unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz]

@androcat @ReggieHere @ChrisMayLA6

Yes, I was just thinking it would be clearer if they coloured the dots and didn't have the coloured backgrounds.

[notsoloud@expressional.social]

@ChrisMayLA6
How are these colorings done? There must be a lot of (over?)simplification going on here. No way the wards divide that nicely by just two variables. The middle should look a lot more mottled.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@ChrisMayLA6

That would make sense. It's quite a confusing chart.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@GeofCox

It is a pretty stark cut off. Makes a bit of a mockery of RefUK's claims to attracting younger voters.

@ChrisMayLA6 @ApostateEnglishman

[androcat@toot.cat]

@unchartedworlds @ReggieHere @ChrisMayLA6

It's a striking outcome, though.

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@ChrisMayLA6 This diagram is misleading because it does not show the ages in proportion to their share of the population, or of their propensity to vote.

[bazzargh@hachyderm.io]

@rozeboosje @ChrisMayLA6 I think you might have read @Tupp_ed 's The Gist https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-britain-the-ungoverned-country/ - it has exactly that explanation of why this chart is misleading, and other charts that show a clearer picture.

[rozeboosje@masto.ai]

@bazzargh @ChrisMayLA6 @Tupp_ed That's the one. Thanks for finding it!

[thedonsielass@mas.to]

@bazzargh Thanks. Really useful article

[woo@fosstodon.org]

@ChrisMayLA6 The LibDems seem to have quietly doubled in size too, by their cunning technique of being silenced. I saw one on the wild yesterday, resorting to hand gestures at Jenrick. Not the one I'd have made but funnier.