Australian electorate maps - by poll/locality/postcode

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I'm probably committing innumerable cartographic sins here, but:

I've started building maps of Australian electorates, approximating the boundaries of polling districts by the addresses and postcodes given by the AEC and plotting the 2PP results over each locality's conjectured boundaries. I don't scrupulously plot out the boundaries of neighborhoods by the street or block here - my intention is merely to give a sense of the basic political geography of a given electorate, even if the boundary lines between communities are very roughly plotted on the map.

Maybe this makes me look like a fool for overlooking something glaringly obvious (do please forgive a clueless Yank), but here we go:

Here's Wentworth:



and here's Eden-Monaro, still in progress pending final 2013 results:



Comments and critiques welcome, especially from Australians and Australian politics experts.

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If I do enough of these, I could probably put together a composite map of Metro Sydney - maybe even of the whole of NSW. I'm also calculating the primary vote along these same lines for the purpose of making minor-party strength maps (especially of the Greens).

Any requests? I'd prefer to work on NSW for the time being, but I'd be willing to move elsewhere in Australia.

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One more for the night. Kingsford Smith:



ALP hung on to Maroubra in 2013 by one vote.

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First map by request: Dobell.

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The whole of metro Sydney (24 electorates) in 2010:

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I'm working on a complete state map of NSW right now. After that, I'll give WA a try.

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Well, here it is, at long last.

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It's back, bitches! Anton Kreitzer has been waiting long enough.

Metro Perth 2010 (electorates of Brand, Cowan, Curtin, Fremantle, Hasluck, Moore, Perth, Stirling, Swan and Tangney)

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Two down.

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I started working on this while Julia Gillard was Prime Minister. How's that for an effortpost?

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Well, it isn't Australia, but here's a map of New Zealand made using the same methodology.



(Party list vote.)