After final years' UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland election many of the best mapped visualizations of the results used s hexagon grid maps. Esri has similar a shot taken this a phase farther yesteryear adding an extra dimension to exercise a 3d hexagonal cartogram of the 2015 UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland election results.
Political districts are unremarkably based on equal population areas as well as non on equal geographical areas. The number of this is that densely populated urban areas traditionally get got to a greater extent than election districts yesteryear expanse than less populated rural areas.
This tin acquaint a work when visualizing election results using a traditional choropleth map, For example, inwards the UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland the Conservative Party traditionally performs improve inwards rural areas as well as the Labour Party gets to a greater extent than votes inwards inner cities. Therefore if you lot color election districts on a map based on the winner inwards each district you lot tend to acquaint a film of the UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland where well-nigh of the dry reason appears to get got voted Conservative - fifty-fifty if the election number is genuinely much closer.
Hexagon grid maps assistance to overcome this work yesteryear ignoring the geographical size of each election district as well as presenting each district as an as sized hexagon. Geographically accuracy is thence partly sacrificed inwards favor of a to a greater extent than accurate representation of the number of election districts won yesteryear each political party.
The Political Causeway - UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland Election Results, created yesteryear Esri's Kenneth Field, overlays a 3d hexagonal cartogram on transcend of a 3d map of the UK. The primary wages of using 3d cartograms is that the map tin non alone demo the winners inwards each election district only tin likewise stand upward for voter turnout as well as the pct of votes won yesteryear each party.
On the map 4 layers of stacked hexagons demo the number of votes cast for each political party. The superlative of each hexagon represents voter turnout. The winner of each district appears on transcend of the stack as well as the colors stand upward for the political parties.
The disadvantage of such an approach is that you lot tin alone genuinely run across all 4 stacked hexagons inwards election districts unopen to the border of the map. In election districts that look inwards the midpoint of the dry reason you lot tin alone run across the transcend stack. The map overcomes this work yesteryear allowing you lot to plough each of the 4 layers inwards the stack on & off. The map likewise allows you lot to persuasion the election results as nested, proportional symbols. This allows you lot to persuasion the map as a to a greater extent than traditional 2D hexagonal cartogram, from above.
