ABC are using Google Maps equally business office of their alive online reporting of the Australian election results. Results are appearing on the map equally they are announced inwards the dissimilar electoral seats.
The map includes options to sentiment the electrical current political party asset each seat, ABC's predications inwards each topographic point as well as to sentiment which seats convey changed hands.
Google has created their ain Live Election Map. Electoral seats are beingness shaded on the map equally the results come upwards inwards as well as a running full of the seats won past times each political party is displayed inwards the map sidebar.
The map too allows you lot to direct your local expanse to sentiment the alive count inwards your electorate as well as buy the farm on rail of intelligence stories equally they break.
The Guardian's Australian Election Results 2013 map is taking a dissimilar approach. Because of the huge variations inwards the size of Australian electorates shading the map to demo the results for each political party tin sack endure visually confusing. The coalition tend to perform meliorate inwards the geographically larger seats - resulting inwards maps looking largely blueish fifty-fifty if the other parties are performing meliorate than the coalition.
The Guardian's map thus shows all the electorates equally circles sized past times population as well as loosely tied to their geographic location. However The Guardian map seems to demo the electrical current incumbent inwards each topographic point as well as is updating each topographic point equally the results are announced. This introduces a dissimilar work to the map equally it is non clear inwards each topographic point whether the map is showing the trial from the 2013 election or the electrical current incumbent from the 2010 election (although this work volition manifestly endure resolved when all the seats convey announced).
