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Monday, March 15, 2021

The Election Point Map


In but nether a month's fourth dimension the Britain volition concord soundless some other full general election.

After the concluding Britain election hexagonal grid maps seemed to hold upward the near pop agency to visualize the results. The utilisation of hexagon grids helps to overcome the problems of political districts beingness based on equal population areas as well as non on equal geographical areas. Using hexagon grids stops an election map beingness visually overwhelmed past times the results inward those rural areas alongside geographically larger constituencies.

However i work alongside a traditional grid map is that it entirely shows which political party won each constituency as well as non the let out of votes shape for each political party inward each constituency. Culture as well as Insight has attempted to address this work past times creating a point map of the 2015 Britain election results. The Colours of The 2015 Electorate map attempts to furnish a ameliorate visualization of the let out of votes shape for each political party inside each constituency past times representing voters alongside colored dots.

Each colored point represents i hundred voters for that political party. The place of the dots is randomized inside each constituency.

You tin click on an private constituency on the map to sentiment which political political party won the seat, who came minute as well as the size of the winner's majority. Although the stated role of using a point map is to 'visualise (the) multifariousness of voting' inward each constituency clicking on the a constituency doesn't reveal the let out of votes shape for each political party.


Another agency to demo the let out of votes shape for each political party inside each constituency is a 3D hexagonal cartogram. For example this Brexitogram map, showing the results of the Britain plebiscite on the EU, allows you lot to encounter the let out of votes shape for each side. The pinnacle of each hexagon represents voter turnout.

The disadvantage of such an approach is that you lot tin entirely actually encounter both colours inward the stacks unopen to the border of the map. In election districts that seem inward the oculus of the province you lot tin oft entirely encounter the hand colour. The map partly overcomes this work past times allowing you lot to plough the colours on & off. This allows you lot to at to the lowest degree sentiment the results inward much the same agency every bit a to a greater extent than traditional 2D hexagonal cartogram.

There are advantages as well as disadvantages to all these approaches to visualizing election results. On the forenoon of the ninth June broadcasters & newspapers volition desire maps which best visualize the overall results inward each constituency. They are thence near probable to utilisation a traditional choropleth or 2D heagonal cartogram map. H5N1 map that best visualizes the overall winner inward each election district as well as inward the whole country.