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Thursday, February 25, 2021

20 Ways To Map An Election


Donald Trump, according to the New York Times, keeps a collection of printed election maps inwards the dining room side yesteryear side to the Oval Office. He likes to mitt out copies of this election maps to White House visitors when they leave. President Trump's election map is a choropleth map, which shows all the counties of the U.S. of America colored yesteryear the political party which won the 2016 election. Donald Trump likes this map as well as so much that he besides hung a large version of the map from a wall inwards the West Wing.

Any huge fan of election maps similar the POTUS volition beloved Esri's collection of election maps, Thematic Mapping. Thematic Mapping is a collection of 2012 Presidential Election maps, providing examples of a attain of dissimilar thematic mapping approaches that tin last used to map election results.

President Trump likes his choropleth map as well as so much because it shows a bulk of the province colored red. Even though Hilary Clinton won the pop vote Trump won the virtually counties. H5N1 choropleth map is thus practiced at showing how Trump won the election simply isn't necessarily a groovy agency to present the percent of votes each candidate won.

There are many other ways to map election results. Esri's Thematic Mapping collection includes choropleth maps, dasymetric point density, cartograms, isopleth contours, proportional symbols, proportional text as well as other thematic approaches to election mapping. Hopefully President Trump volition come across Thematic Mapping as well as hang an instance map of each of these thematic approaches to the 2016 Presidential election to the walls of the West Wing.