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Cassie Barton
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Housing Research and Analysis Manager at the Greater London Authority, on loan from the House of Commons Library. Interested in housing stats, demography, and data visualization.
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I first did the constituency analysis quite a few years ago, but it's been good to bring it up to date. Some interesting patterns.
How do leasehold transactions vary by constituency? An annotated map of the percentage of sales that were leasehold by constituency in 2024 in England and Wales. Annotations explain: 23% of residential property sales were leasehold in England and Wales in 2024. 98% of flats were sold leasehold, compared with only 6% of houses. There was also a lot of variation between constituencies. There were some leasehold 'hotspots' in areas where it's more common for houses to be sold leasehold, including parts of the North West and Yorkshire. Other hotspots are areas where flats make up a large proportion of overall sales, like central London.
July 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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How do constituencies with different demographics vote?

I've updated this interactive I made a few years ago with data for current constituencies, and the 2024 general election.

Explore patterns by age, housing tenure, household type and more:

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/census-data-...
A dot plot with clusters of constituencies that voted Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and "Other" in the 2024 general election. The clusters are spread out by the percentage of households in each constituency that were private renters, showing that constituencies with high proportions of private renters were more likely to vote Labour.
February 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Things I want to know after playing around with other countries' data:
- Why did twin births peak in the mid-2010s in so many places?
- Why has Japan had so few twins historically?
- What's up with the Chilean Twin Spike of 1983?
February 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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A grumpy, pig like creature Something hedge shaped, asleep A worm giving an enthusiastic trumpet blast A tired barrel with a flower on its head
December 22, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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A concerned, pointy entity A purple shape with a high heeled shoe and a raised eyebrow Something calm, with wings and a face A creature with tree-like antennae
December 22, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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This month I've been collaging a weird little guy for each day, in an attempt to stave off midwinter madness. Not sure if it worked, but here are some of my favourites.
One of many examples of small creatures made of collage material. A colourful, concerned ghost A purple and pink puffball A contemplative Nessie-type creature Something with a tail and feet
December 22, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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I always find Spotify Wrapped kind of embarrassing. Partly because I have to read sentences like this, and know that I brought them on myself...
A screenshot from Spotify Wrapped that reads, "January was your Goblincore Alt Z Indie Pop phase"
December 4, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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I like that @commonslibrary.bsky.social reassures me that I'm not the only one getting my briefing updates done last thing on a Friday. (Also, it really shows the variety of things we cover!)
A screencap of the bot account linked to, which has automatically tweeted six Commons Library briefing/dashboard updates in the last hour
December 1, 2023 at 6:26 PM