Often done for internal stuff within parties (eg selection votes in Labour) - though usually with RON rather than write-ins.
OTL Election maps resources thread
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Thande
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Very nice work, that man. Noticeable difference between 'properly' unopposed elections and those with a third party candidate; Arkansas in particular barely stands out at all...
I fixed up the 2016 House election map (added PA counties and tidied up the key). Eventually, I'll do more maps like this.
I have produced New Jersey General Assembly maps for 2013 and 2015. @Zaffre
Wow, that's a pretty stark split there. New Jersey looks like a Democrat sandwich on two pieces of Republican.
Thande
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It's because what is known as the BosWash Corridor, or as I rebranded it for LTTW, THE ARC OF POWER, cuts across the state from New York City to Philadelphia.
It's because what is known as the BosWash Corridor, or as I rebranded it for LTTW, THE ARC OF POWER, cuts across the state from New York City to Philadelphia.
That explains that then. It's full of City Folk(TM).
So I finished mapping the ILGA/RIWI poll's question on transgender people and it seems as though attitudes are different than on gay people. The global north has a generally less positive opinion than on gay people, but the global south is more mixed. East/South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa is more positive towards trans people, but the Middle East and North Africa is less so than gay people.
Uhura's Mazda
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Although there's obviously a massive difference between how Iranians would read that question and how an American would.
Yes, although I will note despite Iran's policies on trans and gay people, acceptance of gay people is slightly higher than trans people from this poll.
Uhura's Mazda
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@Utgard96, who drew that basemap, is a bit pissed off IIRC.I don't know if you are aware, but someone put this map on the Wikipedia page for the Japanese General Election:
I don't know if you are aware, but someone put this map on the Wikipedia page for the Japanese General Election:
Bwahahaha. Guess I should have slapped my name on it - I didn't because I knew someone else had made the basemap and might have wanted to use it.
Nice! It'd be interesting to see elections going farther back, but you'd be hard-pressed to find all the data.
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2014 is done! For nominees of the same party, I tried horizontal striping (so as not to be confused with eventual ties). Differences I noticed:
- Less unopposed districts
- Democrats actually exist in Arkansas and North Dakota
- Democrats in the Texas panhandle are less anemic
- Can't see any overall swing just from the map, though the overall swing was 4.65% toward the Democrats from 2014 to 2016.
Thande
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If it wasn't clear, 'well done that man' is a phrase up here used to praise someone to their face, I hadn't considered it might not come over clearly to others.
Yeah, often it's not so much finding the data (though that's certainly hard) as finding the boundaries.
Great work on the 2014 map. If you want to see real contrast, it might be worth doing 2008 rather than 2012 next if you have the data.
Indeed; you're lucky to find boundaries before even the 2000 redistricting.
The SoS' office in most states seems to go back to at least the 1990s, so data isn't a problem. I've already started on 2012, though.
Zimmerwald1915
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I wonder if this shapes legislators' and judges' views of how districts "ought" to look. Presumably, they have better records than we do, but what if they don't? Or never bother to check?
I mean, they have old Congressional district boundaries, still, which didn't look nearly as ugly.
Nazi Space Spy
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Anyone know where to find a map of UK constituencies in 1970 in which the constituencies are labeled? I want to make a map for a timeline I'm doing, but I am not sure which constituency is which on the basemap.
Thande
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I don't have one for the whole UK in one place, but here's one for Scotland: http://www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk/maps/westminster/1955/
