The New York Times has mapped out the results of yesterday's elections inwards Virginia, New York together with New Jersey. For these election results the paper has used the Mapbox GL mapping platform together with provided users amongst a diversity of dissimilar visualizations of each result.
The default thought on the mapped results provides a elementary choropleth thought of the results inwards each county. This default thought of the vote portion allows readers to come across the vote portion of each candidate inwards each electoral precinct.
This 'vote share' thought suffers from a mutual work of electoral mapping, where larger rural precincts amongst less voters dominate the map at the expense of smaller urban precincts (where a bulk of voters genuinely live). You tin come across inwards the screenshot inwards a higher house that inwards this 'vote share' view, for Virginia, the Republican Ed Gillespie genuinely appears to convey won inwards close of Virginia, despite having lost the election.
To overcome this slightly misleading moving-picture demo the NYT's electoral map likewise includes a 'vote density' view. In this mapped thought the hue of the color used inwards each precinct is based on the density of voters. As you lot tin come across inwards the map inwards a higher house this helps to address roughly of the problems amongst the 'vote share' view. The muted cherry-red no longer visually dominates over the stronger hued bluish on the map.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 3rd 'vote lead' thought uses scaled round out markers inwards each precinct. The size of these markers reflects the size of the Pb of the winning candidate inwards each precinct. Again this map presents a to a greater extent than accurate moving-picture demo of the actual effect of the election. Another 'shift from 2016' thought uses colored arrows to demo the swing inwards votes inwards each precinct since the final election. This thought provides a keen visual moving-picture demo of the huge swing inwards Virginia from the Republicans to the Democrats.
