Telegraph’s interactive political map

This is fun. Telegraph.co.uk has come up with an interactive political map of Britain.

Essentially it’s a dot-map of Britain, with each dot representing an electorate (as defined by the new boundaries that became effective in June 2007). Click on the dot and you see the candidates for that electorate, voter turnout and data on health, crime and education.

Interested in three or four particular electorates? Stick a pin in them and you can track them more easily. Want to know what would happen if 4% of swing voters in a Tory-vs-Labour race opted for the Tories? Use the Swingometer to find out. Want to see Labour’s 20 most vulnerable seats, the Lib Dem’s top 25 target seats or the electorates created under the new boundaries? Hit the predefined searches and there they are.

The map took a short while to load for me (no surprise, really, given download speeds etc) and a couple of times it came up blank after I’d clicked through and was trying to come back. But I like it and I expect many tcuk users will too.