Labour may have won a landslide victory in the UK election, but their vote share barely budged. The bigger reason is Reform UK, the insurgent right-wing party led by Nigel Farage, which had the biggest vote-share increase in ~80% of seats the Tories lost.
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🇫🇷🗳️ Since Macron was elected president in 2017, support for Le Pen’s National Rally has more than doubled in 83% of French municipalities 📈
@mariepastora, @OvaskaOvaska and I pulled an all-nighter to visualise this unprecedented surge ⤵️
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ALT A map of France with purple spikes representing the increased change in vote share for the National Rally for each municipality, between the 2017 and 2024 legislative elections. Across the Brittany region, the far right party received 8.0% of votes in 2017, and 27.7% in 2024 with the highest change found in the municipality of Lamballe-Armor. In Cantal, the second least densely populated department, the National Rally’s vote share went from 6.3% in 2017 to 31.5%, a five-fold increase and the second largest in the country. In Northern Corsica, support for Le Pen’s party and its allies increased by 6.5 times, the second largest department-wide gain in France with 4.1% of votes in 2017 to 27.0% in 2024.
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What's in your scented shampoo? It's not very clear at all -- with @dani_lsc and @madcampb, we took a look at fragrance ingredients in your daily cosmetic products (also i taught myself Blender for this so pls read): bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
The Tom Renner Award goes to @business for "America, Global Gun Pusher," which revealed how the U.S. government profits from and promotes the sale of American guns around the world. bloomberg.com/news/storythre…
ALT Announcement graphic for 2023 IRE Awards. Bloomberg News won the Tom Renner Award for "America, Global Gun Pusher.” Bloomberg News was also awarded an IRE Medal.
Vintage ships with untraceable insurance are navigating the Red Sea in the face of Houthi attacks - BBG graphics looked at the impacts bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-… via @bbgvisualdata
Weeks after a Houthi missile attacked the Rubymar, the ship dumped fuel into the sea and could still pour environmentally damaging fertilizer. @k3blu3@alexlongley1@pogkas@JennahHaque@hellococomo unpack the ongoing risks for other ships transiting the Red Sea