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DescriptionBassetlawGraph.svg	English: United Kingdom general election results for Bassetlaw constituency.
Date	15 June 2017
Source	Own work
Author	JeremyA

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The Background colour indicates the party of the sitting MP at any given year.

Graph drawn with R

Parties:

Conservative = Conservative Party (1885–1918; 1964–present); Conservative and Liberal Unionist (1922–1959).
Labour = Labour Party
Liberal = Liberal Party (1885–1979); SDP-Liberal Alliance (1983–1987); Liberal Democrats (1992–present).

Data:

Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal	Other
1885.96	51.7	NA	48.3	NA
1886.57	NA	NA	NA	NA
1890	54.5	NA	45.5	NA
1892.57	52.4	NA	47.6	NA
1895.6	57.4	NA	42.6	NA
1900.81	NA	NA	NA	NA
1906.61	47.4	NA	52.6	NA
1910.11	51.6	NA	48.4	NA
1910.97	51	NA	49	NA
1918.95	NA	NA	NA	NA
1922.87	55.2	44.8	NA	NA
1923.93	42.3	28.3	29.4	NA
1924.83	46.3	41	12.7	NA
1929.41	41.3	58.7	NA	NA
1931.82	NA	33.36	NA	66.64
1935.87	NA	51.33	NA	48.67
1945.51	37.21	62.79	NA	NA
1950.148	32.16	57.64	10.2	NA
1951.82	39.29	60.71	NA	NA
1955.4	41.89	58.11	NA	NA
1959.77	41.97	58.03	NA	NA
1964.79	40.97	59.03	NA	NA
1966.25	38.37	61.63	NA	NA
1968	47.92	49.64	NA	2.44
1970.46	39.21	54.87	5.92	NA
1974.16	40.01	59.99	NA	NA
1974.78	30.9	53.69	14.65	0.76
1979.34	37.97	50.23	11.8	NA
1983.44	37.74	45.6	NA	16.66
1987.44	37.47	48.1	NA	14.43
1992.27	35	53.4	11.6	NA
1997.33	24.7	61.1	10.3	3.8
2001.43	30.2	55.3	12.7	1.8
2005.34	29.8	56.6	13.6	NA
2010.35	33.9	50.5	11.2	4.4
2015.35	30.7	48.6	2.7	18
2017.44	43.3	52.6	2.2	1.9

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The graph was produced with R. The following code will reproduce the graph using the data on this page.

  library(tidyverse)
  library(htmltab)
  library(lubridate)
  
  election_graph <- function(pageURL) {
    election <- htmltab(pageURL,
                        which = 2,
                        rm_nodata_cols = F)
    election <- as.tibble(lapply(election, function(x) {gsub("unopp", "100", x)}))
    
    tidy_election <- gather(election, "Party", "Votes", 2:length(election))
    tidy_election$Year <- as.numeric(tidy_election$Year)
    tidy_election$Party <- factor(tidy_election$Party, levels = c("Conservative", "Labour", "Liberal", "Green", "SNP", "UKIP", "Other"))
    tidy_election$Votes <- as.numeric(tidy_election$Votes)
    
    election_victor <- tidy_election %>% filter(is.na(Votes) == FALSE) %>% group_by(Year) %>% summarize(Party = Party[which(Votes == max(Votes))])
    election_victor$Year <- as.numeric(election_victor$Year)
    election_victor$start_year <- election_victor$Year
    election_victor$end_year <- c(election_victor$Year[-1], ceiling(election_victor$Year[length(election_victor$Year)] + 1))
    election_victor[1,3] <- floor(election_victor[1,3] - 1)
    
    tidy_election$Votes <- as.numeric(sapply(tidy_election$Votes, function(x) {gsub(100, NA, x)}))
    
    party_colours <- c("#0087DC", "#DC241F", "#FAA61A", "#008066", "#FFF95D", "#EFE600", "dark grey")
    names(party_colours) <- c("Conservative", "Labour", "Liberal", "Green", "SNP", "UKIP", "Other")
    
    ggplot(tidy_election) +
      geom_rect(data = election_victor,
                aes(xmin = start_year,xmax = end_year, ymin = -Inf, ymax = Inf, fill = Party),
                alpha = 0.35,
                show.legend = F) +
      geom_line(aes(x = Year, y = Votes, colour = Party), size = 0.703) +
      geom_point(aes(x = Year, y = Votes, colour = Party)) +
      geom_hline(yintercept = 100, color="black", size = 1.5) +
      geom_vline(xintercept = 2019, color="black", size = 1.5) +
      scale_colour_manual(values = party_colours) +
      scale_fill_manual(values = party_colours) +
      theme(text = element_text(color="black", size = 14),
            axis.text = element_text(color="black", size = 11),
            axis.line.x = element_line(color="black", size = 0.703),
            axis.ticks.x = element_line(color="black", size = 0.703),
            axis.line.y = element_line(color="black", size = 0.703),
            axis.ticks.y = element_line(color="black", size = 0.703),
            axis.ticks.length = unit(5, "points"),
            panel.grid.major = element_line(color="blue", size = 0.5, linetype = 3),
            panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
            panel.background = element_blank(),
            legend.position = c(.98, .97),
            legend.direction = "horizontal",
            legend.text = element_text(color="black", size = 11),
            legend.title=element_blank(),
            legend.justification = c("right", "top"),
            legend.box.just = "right",
            legend.key = element_blank(),
            legend.background = element_rect(fill = "white", colour = "black"),
            legend.margin = margin(0, 4, 4, 4)) +
      scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0, 0), limits = c(election_victor[[1,3]], election_victor$end_year[length(election_victor$end_year)]), breaks = seq(1890, 2010, 10)) +
      scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0, 0), limits = c(0, 100), breaks = seq(0, 100, 20)) +
      labs(x = "Year", y = "Percentage Vote")
  }
  
  election_graph("https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BassetlawGraph.svg")
  
  ggsave("BassetlawGraph.svg", device = "svg", units = "cm", width = 20, height = 11, dpi = 120)

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