Electing the House of Electives is a novel interactive information visualization of every House of Representatives election since earlier the Civil War. The map allows you lot to explore the historical swings of political ability at both the national score and, closer to home, at the regional level.
The interactive map is slow to navigate. You tin sentiment the election results for whatsoever twelvemonth only past times selecting a twelvemonth from the timeline beneath the map. This timeline too acts equally a nautical chart showing the seat out of Republican together with Democrat representatives elected inwards each election. The map itself is colored to demo which political party won inwards each district. If you lot click on a district on the map you lot tin sentiment the get upwards of the winning instance together with the percent of their vote.
The map allows you lot to switch betwixt a choropleth together with a cartogram view. The cartogram sentiment provides a ameliorate painting demo of the political residual across the population equally it to a greater extent than accurately visualizes the urban vote which is under-represented inwards the choropleth view.
Electing the House of Electives was created past times the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond together with the Department of History at Virginia Tech. The information for the maps comes from a seat out of sources. This information tin move downloaded from Virginia Tech.
