So, a quick map of yesterday's Russian constitutional referendum, color graded.
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Results of the 30 August referendums in Liechtenstein by municipality.
I should note that the election website claims that the Rheinau-Tentscha exclave is part of the municipality of Mauren, even though from what I can tell from Wikipedia it's part of Eschen, so I coloured it based on the results in Eschen.
- HalbeHalbe: a proposal to promote "[t]he balanced representation of women and men in political bodies"
- Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft: a proposal to allow dual citizenship
- S-Bahn: a proposal to dual track the Tisis–Nendeln railway
Sources:
https://www.abstimmungen.li/resultatestart/27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Liechtenstein_referendum
So, what you're saying is, if I'm understanding these maps correctly, they possibly don't like those proposals, maybe?
Tied / no votes.What's up with the black county?
Yes, there were no votes reported in the town of Mt. Washington in the Republican primary. (I use a gradient for tied districts.)Tied / no votes.
They lost seats because they supported Arden's government, which alienated their base. They've moved to the ACT I think.
- Obviously you can't see on an electorate map (if anyone wants to map the List vote, I'd be curious to see it), but New Zealand First fell below the 5% threshold and lost all their seats. It makes a change to see an ardently nationalist party losing support in a recent election.
Democracy in action! Another thing which New Zealand has on us.
- In general it's quite striking to me how most of the countryside was decided by margins of under 15 points (the only exceptions are Waikato for National and Whanganui for Labour), and the only rock-solid National electorates are around Auckland while the only rock-solid Labour seats are in the major cities (I'm surprised West Coast-Tasman, for example, gave Labour less than half the vote and only about a 14-point margin over National).
The South has been bleeding off seats for a while now. They're still represented fairly well (the number of seats in parliament is capped based on how many the South Island has, which stays constant while the total seat number changes), so I'm guessing that in Dunedin specifically, it's just that more people are moving to cities like Christchurch. I'm not a Kiwi so I'll let them explain.This doesn't really have anything to do with the election, but it's very weird to me how Dunedin doesn't even have a big enough population for two seats of its own anymore. Any New Zealanders know why it's become relatively less populous in recent years?
That would be our own @Uhura's Mazda, of blessèd memory.I'd also like to give props to AJRElectionMaps and their colleague David Hoggard for their excellent series on historic New Zealand elections, which helped convince me to give mapping the current election a go.
This is highly unusual, most of the time most of the countryside is rock-solid for National. You see the same thing in reverse with places like South Auckland, so I don't really think "NZ has no safe seats" is an argument that really holds up for scrutiny.Democracy in action! Another thing which New Zealand has on us.