Electoral Maps

More 2008 Election Maps
Jason Kottke, who’s been collecting 2008 U.S. presidential election maps, posted these two maps of “Obamaland” and “McCainland” — the counties that voted for one or the other — not in red, blue or purple, but in stark, one-bit… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
More Cartograms!
Mark Newman is once again getting an awful lot of online attention for his maps and cartograms of the 2008 U.S. presidential election results; he did the same thing for the 2004 presidential and 2006 congressional results (see previous… »
1
Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 7:07 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
The Onion’s Election Map
The Onion also has an election map. It’s what you’d expect. Via MAPS-L…. »
Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps, Fun
The New York Times Maps Electoral Shifts
More good stuff from the New York Times: a slideshow showing the shift in support for presidential candidates since 2004, based on exit polls and the results. Five of the slides show county-by-county voting shifts; at right, counties where… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Cartograms for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Results
As I predicted, some cartograms of the U.S. presidential election results are already available. These cartograms distort the size of each state based on the number of their electoral college votes — making Rhode Island, with four electoral votes,… »
2
Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 7:31 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Kottke’s Election Map Collection
Jason Kottke is collecting election maps produced by various media outlets; his page gathers a screenshot and a link to the map in question. (The screenshot is often from early last night, so does not reflect the final results —… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Three U.S. Election Maps
CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times provide election results maps that I like. All three are interactive: you can hover over each state to obtain the overall results, and click to zoom in to see county-level results. In… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 9:37 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Elections on Ice!
Those of you watching NBC or MSNBC for your dose of election coverage last night may have noticed that they transformed the ice rink at the Rockefeller Center into an election map; apparently they did this the last time,… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 8:26 AM
Categories: Big Maps, Electoral Maps
Election Night
A few more links before the results come in: Google’s list of geo tools for election day. Top five election day mashups (via Make). A map of poll closing times (via Andrew Sullivan). Update, 6:30 PM: Mapping the Scenarios: Geo… »
Posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
More Historical Maps of U.S. Presidential Elections
The University of Richmond’s Voting America site says it “offers a wide spectrum of cinematic visualizations of how Americans voted in the presidential elections at the county level, from the beginning of the modern party system to the present day.”… »
Posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 5:24 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps, Historical Maps
Mapping Obama vs. Kerry
Patrick Ruffini maps the swing in Democratic presidential election support from 2004 to 2008: “This is a post about relative change, not absolutes. Obama is likely to do better than John Kerry in every single state, even Kentucky and… »
Posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
U.S. Presidential Election Newspaper Endorsements
A map showing presidential endorsements by U.S. newspapers. Circle colour indicates which candidate (both now and in 2004); circle size shows relative circulation; mousing over provides more information about the paper. Via Andrew Sullivan…. »
Posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
If the World Could Vote
If the World Could Vote is an interactive map showing the popularity of the two U.S. presidential candidates in other countries. (Democracy not being strictly endemic to the U.S., the title is inaccurate.) No surprise that Barack Obama is polling… »
1
Posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
That SNL Weekend Update Map Sketch
Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment recently took a swing at the touchscreen interactive electoral maps that have become nearly ubiquitous in U.S. election coverage (i.e., John King on CNN). Here’s the entire segment: Via Very Spatial…. »
Posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps, Fun, Video
Elections Canada’s Big Election Results Map
Further to my previous posts on mapping the results of the recent 2008 Canadian federal elections, here is Elections Canada’s preliminary map of the results. Nothing interactive about it — it’s a print-quality, 4.4-megabyte, 39-megapixel PDF. But I like… »
Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
More Canadian Election Maps
Cedric Sam has put together maps of the 2008 federal election results as Google Earth layers (at right, a screenshot). It’s well done: the riding are coloured to make a choropleth map, and contain pie charts to measure popular… »
Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps, Google Earth
Historical Electoral College Maps
270towin.com has, in addition to an interactive map to play with for 2008, historical electoral college maps from every single U.S. presidential election in history — all the way back to George Washington. I admit, I looked at every… »
Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 7:10 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps, Historical Maps
Interactive Maps of the Canadian Federal Election
The CBC’s map of last night’s federal election results is, I think, much better than the Globe and Mail’s map, simply because you can see the riding boundaries and party colours, and at every zoom level, too. That’s a good… »
Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 6:42 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Mapping the Democratic Primaries and Caucuses
On Daily Kos (don’t start), Meng Bomin has a series of maps illustrating the county-by-county results (so far) of the presidential primaries and caucuses of the Democratic primary. On these maps, Obama support is coloured blue, Clinton red, and… »
Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 6:02 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Rural Complaints About Redrawn Electoral Maps
When electoral boundaries are redrawn in Canada, two things are certain: one, rural areas will lose seats as a result of their declining population and urban areas will concomitantly gain seats; and two, rural representatives will complain mightily about it,… »
Posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Mapping the Iowa Caucus Results
There are many ways to map the results of the 2008 Democratic and Republican Iowa caucuses. Google’s map shows county outlines colour-coded to indicate the winning candidate, but does not show detailed results. Politico’s interactive map gives you county-by-county results… »
Posted on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 9:14 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Australian Elections
ABC Australia has a nice Google Maps-based map of the results of last Saturday’s elections; there’s also a Google Earth network link (via Google Earth Blog). Links to other maps of the Australian election results welcome…. »
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 at 9:39 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
The Electoral Map
Speaking of election maps, The Electoral Map is a relatively new blog that’s all about them (at least within an American context). What I find interesting is that the maps featured on this blog are definitely about elections and politics,… »
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 9:11 AM
Categories: Blogs, Electoral Maps
Swiss Federal Elections
Swiss TV station Schweitzer Fernsehen (SF) has an interactive map of the results of Switzerland’s 2007 federal election. In German, natürlich. Thanks to Abram for the link…. »
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 9:03 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Computer-Generated Electoral Districts Redux
Another web page dedicated to generating electoral district boundaries through a computer algorithm as a way to prevent gerrymandering — in this case, the algorithm looks for the “shortest splitline,” which in itself does not take into account any… »
Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 at 12:47 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Gerrymandering as Computer Game
The Redistricting Game is a surprisingly addictive Flash-based, online game that illustrates the state of electoral redistricting in the United States. It is, in a nutshell, gerrymandering as computer game: your missions include stacking the deck on behalf of your… »
Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps, Games & Quizzes
French First-Round Presidential Election Results
Results of the first round of the French presidential elections are usually presented by département. The official results, from the French Interior Ministry, are available here as well as via a Google Earth layer, about which see RenaLId. (Change Layers… »
Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 at 12:10 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Electoral Geography
For an election map junkie like me, Electoral Geography is a very, very dangerous and wonderful place. Where else can you find, under one roof, choropleth maps of the election results in Malta and Madagascar? Fantasic — I’m going to… »
Posted on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 10:07 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Computer-Generated Electoral Districts
An American Scientist article from 1996 discusses the ways in which computer algorithms might improve — or at least depoliticize — how electoral district boundaries are drawn. Taking North Carolina’s congressional districts as an example, the author, Brian Hayes,… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 2:11 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Mediocre Media Mid-Term Mapping
It will probably be a while before the really interesting maps of the 2006 U.S. mid-term elections begin manifesting themselves. In the meantime, we must make do with some surprisingly basic choropleth maps for the Senate and gubernatorial races,… »
Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 at 11:42 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
2006 Mid-term Election Map Roundup
The Library of Congress has a map of the congressional districts for 2006. Via MapHist. Much attention is being paid to Ottawa County, Michigan, for providing maps of real-time election results through its GIS and County Clerk offices. IE only,… »
Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 4:28 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Google Earth U.S. Election Layers
Google has added election guide and congressional district layers for the 2006 mid-term elections to Google Earth, Google Earth Blog and the Washington Post’s tech blog report (the latter via Ogle Earth). I love electoral maps in general, so of… »
Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 at 8:11 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps, Google Earth
Belgian Municipal Elections
As he has for previous elections in Europe, Edward Mac Gillavry critiques the media’s maps of the Belgian municipal election results, which fall into two categories: a Google Maps mashup and a Flash map by Zonky that has appeared on… »
Posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 at 8:15 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
NY Times 2006 Election Guide
The New York Times has a very nice set of interactive maps for the 2006 election races: the choropleth maps are animated, morphing between population-based cartograms and normal U.S. maps; and you can select states based on certain criteria and… »
Posted on Thursday, July 27, 2006 at 2:37 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Local British Elections
Edward of webmapper.net has always been good at critiquing the media’s election results maps, and his take on maps of the local British elections is no exception. See previous entries: German Election Results; Dutch EU Referendum Results…. »
Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 at 8:39 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Congressional District Maps
The U.S. National Atlas has maps of the congressional districts of the current session of Congress, both as previewable GIFs and printable PDFs. Both state and individual district maps are available. As Brad, who submitted this link, points out, it’s… »
Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Canadian Election Maps: After the Vote
In response to Glenn’s complaint about a dearth of maps showing the results of the 2006 Canadian federal election, Cartography whips up a couple of beautiful maps showing the 2004 and 2006 results, with intensity indicating the percentage. Meanwhile, the… »
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 6:51 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Canadian Election Maps: Before the Vote
The polls are starting to close in the Canadian federal election, and no doubt there will be a plethora of election maps in fairly short order. In the meantime, while we wait for the results, there are already a number… »
Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 at 8:57 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Presidential Approval Ratings Maps
It’s on DailyKos, so it’s a partisan source to say the least, and the analysis is definitely predicated on a preference for Democrats, but these maps showing state-by-state breakdowns of the President’s approval rating poll results might be worth a… »
Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 8:24 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
U.S. Electoral District Ballot Initiatives
A feature of many U.S. electoral maps has been the gerrymander: electoral districts drawn, sometimes ludicrously, to favour one party over another. In order to try to prevent that from happening, two upcoming ballot initiatives — one in California, one… »
Posted on Sunday, November 6, 2005 at 10:06 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
You know how I like election maps, so you probably won’t be surprised that I’ve been spending some time perusing Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, which has maps of election results going as far back as there have… »
Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 9:33 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
German Election Results
Webmapper critiques the media’s interactive maps of Germany’s recent Bundestag elections. I agree with Edward: my favourite is Der Spiegel’s flash map: it loads quickly and shows both local constituency results (red and black, a more appropriately Stendhalian version of… »
Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 8:46 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
1895 Electoral Atlas of Canada
From Canada’s National Archives, the Electoral Atlas of the Dominion of Canada, which publishes scans of the original 1895 maps of federal electoral districts; these would have been in use during the 1896 election. Thanks again to peacay (whose new… »
Posted on Sunday, September 18, 2005 at 7:22 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Electoral Maps
More French EU Referendum Results
Following up on this post, Alain Wrobel submits this page analysing the results of last month’s French EU referendum, on which he worked; it breaks down the results for several regions and shows some rather high (I think) absention and… »
Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 1:54 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Dutch EU Referendum Results
Webmapper, whose author is kind of Dutch himself, critiques the maps made by Dutch newspapers to display the results of the Netherlands’ EU constitution referendum, which took place yesterday. (The best of which, incidentally, is probably this one, but see… »
Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2005 at 10:43 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
French EU Referendum Results
Nic Jasson writes, “The spectacular failure of the EU Constitution referendum in France (rejected by 55% of voters yesterday) is easy to understand from this interactive map from the French daily Le Monde, showing the yes/no vote in the 100… »
Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 at 10:23 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
British Election Results
Results in the British election are beginning to come in as I write this, and there will likely be a whole bunch of election maps to post over the next couple of days. Right now, though, the Guardian’s interactive election… »
Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2005 at 7:02 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Mapping the Swiss Political Landscape
This map of the Swiss political landscape scarcely resembles a map of Switzerland (see previous entry); instead, it plots various Swiss cities and regions on political axes — left to right, liberal to conservative — and with colours showing voting… »
Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 8:14 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Mapping the Iraqi Election
Jonathan Corum is back with Mapping the Iraqi Election. “This set of maps for the provisional results of the Iraqi election allows you to adjust the map style, size, and scale,” he writes…. »
Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 at 12:58 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Ukrainian Presidential Election
These maps of Ukraine’s presidential election results (originals here and here) illustrate the problem: suspiciously higher voter turnouts (compared to the first round of voting) and regionally polarized results (though, as Le Sabot Post-Moderne points out, that’s including the questionable… »
Posted on Saturday, November 27, 2004 at 3:06 PM
Categories: Current Events, Electoral Maps
Electoral Maps
Organizational note: the recent posts about the U.S. election results have been moved, along with related older posts, from the News & Politics category to the new Electoral Maps category…. »
Posted on Monday, November 22, 2004 at 2:45 PM
Categories: Current Events, Electoral Maps, Site News
Yet Even Still More U.S. Presidential Election Maps Already
The deceased equine is yet insufficiently flogged. Wonkette found a couple I hadn’t seen elsewhere: this map showing red and blue percentages by state; and this CBS News map showing the sizes of each county in 3D, which is kind… »
Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 at 9:36 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Even More U.S. Presidential Election Maps
You can’t read political blogs for five minutes without stumbling across another cartographic interpretation of last week’s election results. On the one hand, I’m finding all sorts of cool maps; on the other hand, I have to read political blogs…. »
Posted on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 11:12 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
More U.S. Presidential Election Maps
Election maps definitely have been a popular subject this past week: not only are different maps of the U.S. presidential results popping up all over the web, but traffic at The Map Room has more than tripled since Nov. 2… »
Posted on Sunday, November 7, 2004 at 10:20 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
U.S. Election Results Cartogram
Suresh has computed a cartogram of the election results, in which the counties are warped so that their sizes are proportional to the number of votes cast. (Via Jason. See previous entries: Cartograms and Map Distortions; Electoral Maps Made Proportional.)… »
Posted on Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 9:23 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
U.S. Election Results
The results of the U.S. presidential election have been mapped in a number of ways. For some, there are two Americas, and one of them is, um, Canada — instead of running away to Canada, some think Canada should come… »
Posted on Thursday, November 4, 2004 at 4:26 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
CSPAN’s Election Map
People blogging the U.S. election tonight say they really like CSPAN’s map of the election results. Mouse over each state for the magic…. »
Posted on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 at 9:07 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Electoral Maps Made Proportional
I like electoral maps, and I like seeing the election results plotted out on a map so that it’s easy to see which regions voted which way. The problem with such maps, as many people have noticed, is that large,… »
Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 10:22 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Gingerbread Electoral College
From the Democratic National Convention: an electoral college map where each vote is represented by a gingerbread man…. »
Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 6:50 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Canadian Election Results
Elections Canada has a map of the preliminary results from Monday’s general election — preliminary as in barring recounts and the like. The page links to a 1.9 MB PDF file. Via Richard, who shows some U.S. equivalents for comparison…. »
Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 at 4:39 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
2000 U.S. Presidential Election
A map of the vote distribution, by state and electoral college votes, of the 2000 U.S. presidential election, from the FEC. (via Richard)… »
Posted on Sunday, February 15, 2004 at 12:20 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps
Iowa Caucuses
If you liked the California recall maps that did neat stuff with the county-by-county results (see previous entry), you’ll enjoy what those maps’ creator, Jonathan Corum, has done with the Iowa Caucuses: he’s devised a way to map Iowa that… »
Posted on Monday, January 26, 2004 at 9:51 AM
Categories: Electoral Maps

Note: Entries from 2003 were not categorized and will not appear in the category archives. Please consult the monthly archives.