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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Spanish Election Maps



El Diario has mapped out the results of yesterday's Castilian election. Today's election was the mo this twelvemonth as well as the 4th inwards equally many years. The Castilian Socialist Workers’ political party (PSOE) won the nearly seats inwards Sunday's election. However their 120 seats was 3 fewer than they won inwards Apr as well as and hence the political party notwithstanding has no majority. The extreme far-right Vox political party jumped into 3rd house piece the centre-right Citizens political party saw a collapse inwards their vote.

El Diario's interactive map of yesterday's results shows the winning candidate inwards each seat. You tin give the axe too switch the map as well as hence that it visualizes the mo nearly pop political party inwards each spot or the 3rd nearly pop political party inwards each seat. The map too includes a sentiment which allows y'all to run into solely those seats which convey changed hands since April's election as well as which parties won those changing seats.


El Diario has too created an arrow swing map which visualizes how votes convey swung inwards each electoral spot since April's election. On this map bluish as well as blood-red arrows are used to exhibit the size of the swing to the left or correct since Apr (note for U.S.A. of America readers inwards nearly of the basis blood-red is used for left fly parties as well as bluish for correct fly parties).

The arrow swing vote shows that although PSOE won the nearly votes nationwide at that spot was a rightward swing inwards huge areas of Spain. Only actually the provinces of Cantabria, Teruel, Madrid as well as Balears saw meaning numbers of seats amongst a leftward swing inwards yesterday's election. This was nowhere nigh plenty to win the PSOE a working majority.

Because PSOE failed to win a bulk I would't bet against Espana having at to the lowest degree 1 other election side yesteryear side twelvemonth (to become far 5 elections inwards 5 years). However turnout inwards this election was significantly downwards on the Apr election. The turnout inwards Apr was 75.5% as well as yesterday the turnout was 69.9%. This advise that Castilian voters may hold out commencement to sense election fatigue.