Visualizations : Candidates for the UK House of Commons, 1950-1970, by Party and Occupation, v. 2

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Data file: Candidates for the UK House of Commons, 1950-1970, by Party and Occupation, v. 2

Data source: Original dataset extracted from the Times House of Commons series

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pick says: A key shortcoming of this dataset is that so many of the candidates do not have an occupation coded. (This is because the short bios we used to code the candidate characteristics often don't list an occupation, or the occupation doesn't fall into a category we code for, or the text we parse to code the occupation is garbled.) This visualization shows that -- more than a quarter of candidates are not coded. We also see that the oldest categories of MPs are miners and trade union organizers, who represent the Labour old guard. Need to determine to what extent this indicates changing demographics of the Labour party (ie, we already see the rise of a new guard not made up of miners and unionists) and to what extent this merely indicates that the miners and unionists were career politicians in safe Labour districts, pretty much immune from young challengers. Posted Monday January 14, 3:46 PM Last edited Monday January 14, 4:06 PM see view for this comment

pick says: The most successful candidates on average were miners and trade unionists for Labour; these candidates stood for office in districts that were solidly Labour and basically unbeatable. Posted Monday January 14, 4:01 PM see view for this comment

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