Wasn't Saxony a stronghold (the stronghold) of the SPD at those times?
It was indeed - das rote Sachsen was a fairly common political term.
Wasn't Saxony a stronghold (the stronghold) of the SPD at those times?
Especially Leipzig. It saw the foundation of Lasalle's AAVD, was the stronghold of the Independents while they were a thing, and unless I'm reading the map wrongly was the site of Die Linke's best result in Saxony even into 2017.Wasn't Saxony a stronghold (the stronghold) of the SPD at those times?
Oh and I am not doing Die PARTEI or Freie Wähler - too few votes to justify for such a detailed map. If someone else wants to trudge through that data, be my guest!
Could you add the aggregate map too, just to have them all in one place?Estimates using my White vote maps:
Could you add the aggregate map too, just to have them all in one place?
There's probably something to be said about the most Democratic white income group is the richest, but it's a story we all know already and is only going to intensify from here.
My thinking is that I will work backwards from this one. The only question being whether it is worth doing odd-numbered years or just even-numbered ones. The advantage to the former is that I could put all the special elections in between 2014 and 2016 onto the 2015 map, and otherwise you would never see odd-numbered elections in states like Mississippi. But it would leave a lot of the map grey.Sorry to hear about your ankle, @Thande. I know what that feels like.
Also, that map is awesome.
But you do know we're going to start demanding more of them.
My thinking is that I will work backwards from this one. The only question being whether it is worth doing odd-numbered years or just even-numbered ones. The advantage to the former is that I could put all the special elections in between 2014 and 2016 onto the 2015 map, and otherwise you would never see odd-numbered elections in states like Mississippi. But it would leave a lot of the map grey.
For a while I have been considering trying to consolidate all election maps for major U.S. offices in a presidential year onto one map.
As I am currently laid up with a sprained ankle, I've given it a go. Small preview below.
Update for Missouri:
This seems to be the best resolution imgur is capable of. I might have to break this map into 4 or more separate parts when all is said and done.
Those are precincts (counting districts) not seats.You can tell where all the cities are - they have miniscule seats.
Those are precincts (counting districts) not seats.
Those are precincts (counting districts) not seats.
Ah, ok.
The really small ones are still indicative of where the cities are, though.
For a UK comparison here's a polling district map of e.g. Birmingham (compare to the corresponding former ward boundaries, which represents the smallest actual electoral subdivision in the city, each electing 3 councillors off an electorate of about 15-20 thousand). It is interesting to consider what we could produce if those numbers were made available rather than combined prior to the returning officer's announcement, although I'm always concerned about privacy.There's no set rule over how big a precinct can be. However, from my experience, the practical upper limit seems to be about 3,000 voters per district (precincts above this tend to get split the next cycle). Some precincts are quite small - normally because they match up to some village or something (it makes it easier to count and run certain elections if the precinct is co-terminus with municipal boundaries; my own precinct actually straddles two municipalities, so we have to have two types of ballots). While not a perfect measure, it does give a good idea where there's increased population density.
However, that doesn't stop unusual things from happening. There's one precinct in Missouri that only has 4 voters (where, interestingly enough, Clinton and Castle tied at 50% each). Missouri doesn't tend to have anything big, though I do know Nebraska has these stupidly large precincts in some areas that process half as many voters as your average Westminster constituency at a single site.
For a UK comparison here's a polling district map of e.g. Birmingham (compare to the corresponding former ward boundaries, which represents the smallest actual electoral subdivision in the city, each electing 3 councillors off an electorate of about 15-20 thousand). It is interesting to consider what we could produce if those numbers were made available rather than combined prior to the returning officer's announcement, although I'm always concerned about privacy.