Yesterday was the election of the 18th High German Bundestag. The Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany contains 299 constituencies and Google Politics together with Elections has created a Google Map that allows voters to persuasion how the candidates performed inwards all 299 constituencies.
Election maps for High German elections are truly non unremarkably equally informative equally election maps tin endure for other countries. In the the United States of America for example, a alive results map inwards a presidential election tin render a adept visual guide equally to how candidates are performing together with human activity equally an indicator to the probable winner inwards the presidential race.
In Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany all the same voters truly accept 2 votes, 1 for the local candidate together with 1 for the political party who they desire to principle the province nationally. The Budestag is carve upward downward the middle, amongst one-half the representatives consisting of the local vote winners together with one-half the representatives allocated inwards proportion to the national votes.
Many voters inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany truly carve upward their vote, voting for 1 political party locally together with for roughly other political party at the national level. Therefore a map showing the winners inwards each constituency inevitably solely tells one-half the story together with tin endure a misleading guide to the national results. However amongst Angela Merkel's Christion Democrat Union having performed together with then good the map does render a useful guide to the overall result.
Sueddeutsche.de has used the Google Maps API to exercise The How Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany Voted map. The map shows a breakdown of votes inwards each of the 299 constituencies.
It is equally good possible to persuasion a breakdown of the minute vote results inwards each constituency, a breakdown of the turnout yesteryear constituency together with compare the 2013 results to the 2009 election results.
The Berliner Morgenpost has released a Google Map of the election results inwards Berlin. The map shows the results inwards each electoral ward together with the candidates from Berlin elected to the Bundestag.
Beneath the map are a set out of filters to display dissimilar map views. These include links to persuasion where at that spot was a high turnout together with where the turnout was peculiarly low, where the results was really unopen together with where the most voters voted differently at the local together with national level.
The BBC has created a alive Twitter map of the High German elections. Rather than exercise a map of election results the BBC has decided to brand the election itself the focus of the story.
All Eyes on Germany shows where people are tweeting nearly the High German election. H5N1 clustered mark arrangement shows the set out of Tweets nearly the election made from locations worldwide. H5N1 heatmap layer equally good allows you lot to persuasion the set out of election Tweets equally a choropleth.
