Election day – don’t forget to vote!

It’s election day. The polling stations are open from 7am until 10pm. However you choose to vote, please don’t forget!

• Greenwich polling station finder
• List of Lewisham polling stations (PDF)

Referendum results for Blackheath

Results from the referendum for Lewisham and Greenwich, according to this page.

Interesting that Lewisham’s AV vote had a majority of just 745 people (out of 57,113 people who voted).

Name	Yes vote	Yes %	No vote	No %	Electorate	Turnout	Turnout %
Lewisham	28184	49.35	28929	50.65	172573	57113	33.09
Greenwich	20618	39.16	32039	60.84	158603	52657	33.2

(I can’t get the national total percentages to add up correctly on their spreadsheet though… Can you?)

Pushing the boundaries…

I was wondering why Darryl had made such a long and complicated description of the electoral boundary changes – why not just upload a map? Surely the maps outlining the electoral boundaries must be held in public, and be freely distributable?

Well, not exactly. There’s this wet blanket of a site, from Ordnance Survey (friends of the Free Our Data campaign). Good luck with zooming out. And you’re not allowed to view more than one constituency at a time… But why on earth would you want to do that? Ridiculous. And who paid for the creation of these maps? You and me (and probably your great-grandparents, come to think of it).

You are also not allowed to reproduce them. Unless you’re in Sweden and have a rather more relaxed view of copyright law… Someone appears to have uploaded a map showing the old boundaries around Blackheath in blue, and the new ones in red. Unchanged bits are in purple.

http://bayimg.com/lalCKAach