Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party won the almost seats inwards yesterday's Canadian election but he lost his overall majority. The Conservatives won the pop vote but did non win plenty seats to course of educational activity a government. The Liberals are instantly probable to course of educational activity a minority government, perchance with the aid of the left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP).
So far the Canadian election maps that I get got seen haven't been really informative. In the final American too Great Britain elections lots of election maps used arrows to exhibit how votes had swung since the previous election. These arrow maps are nifty for visualizing how unlike parties get got performed amend or worse across the province since the final election (here's an example from the U.S. midterms). With the Liberals losing their overall bulk it would hold upward interesting to come across an arrow swing map of the Canadian election to come across where the Liberals too Conservatives inwards item lost too won vote portion across Canada. However almost of the major word outlets inwards Canada instead created spider web Mercator maps with electoral districts only colored to exhibit the winning political party.
CBC's Canada Votes 2019 includes a uncomplicated interactive map showing the result's of yesterday's election. The Globe too Mail get got a really similar map on their Election 2019 Results. On these maps each electoral district is colored to exhibit the winning party. You tin hover over private districts on the CBC map to sentiment the mention of the winning candidate too yesteryear how many votes that they defeated their nearest challenger. Either of these maps could get got easily been made to a greater extent than informative only yesteryear shading the districts yesteryear the pct of votes won yesteryear the winning candidate. This would at to the lowest degree get got provided an overview of where back upward for the unlike parties was stronger or weaker across the country.
As they are these maps create furnish exactly about insight into exactly about of the major stories of this election. The lite bluish colored districts inwards Quebec highlight the surge of the Bloc Québécois. They tripled their party’s topographic point count, compared to the 2015 election (mostly at the expense of the Liberals), too get got overstep the tertiary largest political party afterward the Liberals too Conservatives. Elsewhere, inwards the western Prairie provinces, the Conservatives swept the board too the Liberals failed to win a unmarried topographic point inwards the area.
Global News has a similar map, which likewise only colors each electoral district yesteryear the color of the winning party. The Global News map does include a push for an 'equal area' view. However this equal expanse sentiment isn't a map but only a serial of colored squares representing each electoral riding. These foursquare are at to the lowest degree organized yesteryear province. However they would move far amend organized into a cartogram, which would introduce an equal expanse sentiment but likewise retain exactly about geographical shape.
One of the major problems with all these election maps is the huge scale of exactly about of Canada's rural electoral ridings. These rural electoral districts dwarf the much smaller ridings which are industrial plant life inwards Canada's cities. For example, glancing at the Global News map to a higher house you lot powerfulness hold upward false to squall upward that the huge amount of orangish on the map meant that the New Democrat Party was i of the biggest winners inwards the election. In fact they came quaternary with exclusively 24 seats. It's exactly that exactly about of those seats are with the largest ridings inwards the country.
My favorite map of the 2019 Canadian Election is the Canadian Election Bubble Animation. This map animates dorsum & forth betwixt a geographical map too an equal sized cartogram. The cartogram sentiment (pictured above) presents each electoral riding equally an equal sized circle. This cartogram sentiment enables you lot to come across to a greater extent than clearly the publish of seats won yesteryear each political party (see how the orangish on this cartogram isn't equally dominant equally on the other election maps).
To overcome the geographical problems with this cartogram the visualization tweens too animates into a to a greater extent than geographical map view. It would hold upward dainty to get got a push which allowed you lot to switch betwixt the 2 views too hence that the user genuinely had command of the map animation. As it is the perpetual switching betwixt the 2 views cannot hold upward controlled yesteryear the user too tin hold upward a footling annoying when trying to read the results of the election.
Luke Andrews' Electoral Cartogram of Canada likewise provides a cartogram map with an equal expanse sentiment of the Canadian election. On this election map each electoral district is the same size. This cartogram sentiment likewise provides a to a greater extent than slow to sympathise overview of the seats won yesteryear each political party than provided yesteryear the geographical maps used yesteryear the major word outlets. The geographical unfamiliarity is partly overcome on this cartogram yesteryear likewise mapping the lakes, the USA too yesteryear labeling the provinces.
