Random international maps thread

[Hatman 🍁]

The new map can be considered a gerrymander, as it splits up Nelson and Castlegar, dividing the strong NDP area up.

[Linus Van Pelt]

It's a tricky part of the country to draw no matter what you do. The new map looks cleaner at first glance but actually Kelowna is very awkward.

[Hatman 🍁]

Yes, I suppose they felt a need to split up Kelowna, which I think wasn't really necessary. They could've kept the entire city together as one, slightly oversized riding, or even just removed some outer neighbourhoods. Or if they had to, split the city up down the middle instead of the bastard step-child they created.

[Citizen Hats]

Mexican Chamber of Deputies, 2012

[Smid]

How did those areas vote prior to the previous redistribution? It could be strategic voting rather than gerrymandering.

[Hatman 🍁]

How did those areas vote prior to the previous redistribution? It could be strategic voting rather than gerrymandering.

Are you talking about BC? It's not really comparable because the NDP was pretty dead in the 1990s.

[Smid]

How did those areas vote prior to the previous redistribution? It could be strategic voting rather than gerrymandering.

Are you talking about BC? It's not really comparable because the NDP was pretty dead in the 1990s.

Which would suggest strategic voting post-redistribution, rather than an attempt to draw a pro-NDP riding.

[Hatman 🍁]

How did those areas vote prior to the previous redistribution? It could be strategic voting rather than gerrymandering.

Are you talking about BC? It's not really comparable because the NDP was pretty dead in the 1990s.

Which would suggest strategic voting post-redistribution, rather than an attempt to draw a pro-NDP riding.

I wouldn't call it strategic voting, as the area is traditionally NDP... at least on the provincial level.

[the506]

Alberta provincial election 2012. New map style: each dot represents a poll. I think it's an easier way to see overall voting patterns without having large rural polls overpowering everything.

Blue = PC; Green = Wildrose; Red = Liberal; Orange = NDP; Cyan = Alberta Party (yes, if you squint closely at Jasper you may see a few.)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Just because something looks like a gerrymander doesn't mean that it necessarily is, and vice versa.

It's a tricky part of the country to draw no matter what you do

Yeah, basic geography is not a friend of the sane electoral map there.

[Hatman 🍁]

Alberta provincial election 2012. New map style: each dot represents a poll. I think it's an easier way to see overall voting patterns without having large rural polls overpowering everything.

Blue = PC; Green = Wildrose; Red = Liberal; Orange = NDP; Cyan = Alberta Party (yes, if you squint closely at Jasper you may see a few.)

Pretty neat. This is the first Alberta provincial poll map I've seen, so thank you. Will you be making a traditional style map?

[Citizen Hats]

I really like that style. I've whipped up a quick one for the last federal election in BC

[Hatman 🍁]

Interesting to see polling stations in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

[Smid]

Those dot maps are both things of beauty and therefore a joy forever.

I have done a few similar ones for Australian election results, because we don't have fixed polling boundaries, but booths can also consequently be of varying sizes.

[Citizen Hats]

Those dot maps are both things of beauty and therefore a joy forever.

I have done a few similar ones for Australian election results, because we don't have fixed polling boundaries, but booths can also consequently be of varying sizes.

The polling boundaries change somewhat election to election.

In other news, enjoy this Vancouver Quadra. I'm going to make more.  Each dot represents a single voter, randomly distributed

[Smid]

Incredible! I noticed that suggestion in the comments section of your blog. I assume that by random distribution, you are randomly distributing within the polling boundaries? Exceptional work!

[Citizen Hats]

[Citizen Hats]

Vancouver Mayoral , 2011

two-party lead by polling division

Red = Anton (Non-Partisan Association)
Green = Robertson (Vision Vancouver)

[Tender Branson]

Great detailed Austrian election results maps (down to the town level) for the last 3 federal elections:

2013:

http://www.strategieanalysen.at/wahlen/karten

2008:

http://www.strategieanalysen.at/wahlen/karten2008

2006:

http://www.strategieanalysen.at/wahlen/karten2006

...

These maps are awesome because it has a "moving tool", which allows you to see which party had at least 1% in which town, at least 2% in which town and so on.

For this you need to click on "Gemeinden/Partei" and move the button below the map to the right side.

[Hatman 🍁]

Vancouver Mayoral , 2011

two-party lead by polling division

Red = Anton (Non-Partisan Association)
Green = Robertson (Vision Vancouver)

Good stuff, except the yellow makes it hard to tell which person won what. I made some maps of the 2008 municipal election here: http://canadianelectionatlas.blogspot.ca/2011/11/british-columbia-municipal-elections.html

[Citizen Hats]

Very right, Hatman. 

[Linus Van Pelt]

Just on that B.C. Southern Interior discussion from above, the other thing to remember is that when the riding was drawn, a large majority of the polls had voted Reform/Alliance in the past three elections, so it wouldn't have really been seen as an "NDP riding" unless people could foresee the large swings that were about to occur.

(The patterns in the west Kootenays, in the riding's eastern bulge, are pretty weird. There are polls that would give Reform big outright majorities with large margins that now do the same for the NDP, and then not too far away there are places like the poll whose actual 2000 result was 26% Alliance, 25% Green, 21% NDP, 15% Liberal, 6% Marijuana, 4% Canadian Action, 3% Progressive Conservative.)

[Hatman 🍁]

The area most likely voted NDP in the 1980s and provincially as well (outside the Liberal landslide)

[Citizen Hats]

The area most likely voted NDP in the 1980s and provincially as well (outside the Liberal landslide)

they did

[Citizen Hats]

2005 Vancouver- Sam Sullivan v. the real Jim Green.   Infamous for the presence of a 'James Green' on the ballot, whom some have accused Sullivan of recruiting.  James Green took enough votes perhaps to have denied the Vision candidate victory