Maggie Thatcher is unpopular in Liverpool

Post: 9 April 2013

This is a map of people who signed a petition yesterday against a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher:

22,659 people signed the petition yesterday. This map is based on the postcode districts of 22,585 of those responses. (74 responses gave invalid postcode information and are excluded).

I have applied a standard deviation. Red dots indicate the centroids of postcode districts with 23 or more responses. Amber dots indicate the centroids of postcode districts with from 8 to 22 responses.

The postcode district counts are from the little-known but quite useful e-petitions open data API. Here’s a copy of the data I used, as a csv file. This data and the map are for yesterday’s responses only.

The petition itself remains live if you want to sign it.

Following is a list of the postcode districts with 100 or more responses:

• L36 Liverpool (Huyton, Roby, Tarbock): 248
• L4 Liverpool (Anfield, Kirkdale, Walton): 223
• L9 Liverpool (Aintree, Fazakerley, Orrell Park, Walton): 193
• L13 Liverpool (Clubmoor, Old Swan, Stoneycroft, Tuebrook): 171
• L12 Liverpool (Croxteth Park, West Derby): 168
• L20 Bootle (Bootle, Orrell, Kirkdale): 164
• L11 Liverpool (Clubmoor, Croxteth, Gillmoss, Norris Green): 150
• BN2 Brighton (Brighton, Bevendean, Brighton Marina, Kemptown, Moulsecoomb, Ovingdean, Rottingdean, Saltdean, Woodingdean): 140
• L25 Liverpool (Belle Vale, Gateacre, Hunts Cross, Woolton, Halewood): 133
• L21 Liverpool (Ford, Litherland, Seaforth): 129
• BN1 Brighton (Brighton, Coldean, Falmer, Hollingbury, Patcham, Preston, Stanmer, Withdean): 118
• L14 Liverpool (Broadgreen, Dovecot, Knotty Ash, Page Moss): 117
• L35 Prescot (Prescot, Whiston, Rainhill): 115
• L17 Liverpool (Aigburth, St Michael’s Hamlet, Sefton Park):113
• WA7 Runcorn: 110

As you can see, based on this data opposition to a state funeral is strongest in the Merseyside area. More than 15% of responses were from the L (Liverpool) postal area. Margaret Thatcher was never very popular in Liverpool.

This is the distribution in Merseyside:

This is the distribution in London:

This is the distribution in Glasgow:

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Attribution statement for the maps:

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2013. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2013. Contains some NI data that I got from a bloke down the pub.