Italy 2013: Maps thread

[Kitteh]

It's a wonderful interactive map. It resembles me the map of the Greek elections in The Guardian website. I wonder if this was made by the same people because it's pretty similar. Only homely can compete with this.

Yes, it was designed by the same people, igraphics.gr

They're a really awesome company.

[Kitteh]

Here's a really fascinating map which is probably really key to understand this election: decline in center-right vote since 2008:



and the same thing for the center-left:

[Filuwaúrdjan]

[minionofmidas]

This needs to be done by province and constituency, by party and coalition, for Camera and Senate. So that's eight maps.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

[Franknburger]

This needs to be done by province and constituency, by party and coalition, for Camera and Senate. So that's eight maps.

I fhink maps of the Camera-Senate differentials by Coalition would be interesting, as they could help to better explore the youth vote.

[homelycooking]

One of Nathan's requests:

[Franknburger]

I fhink maps of the Camera-Senate differentials by Coalition would be interesting, as they could help to better explore the youth vote.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Homely, if you have time to spare, could you make some more maps? I don't have any precise request, but if you want somewhere to start, maybe Calabria?

[homelycooking]

Homely, if you have time to spare, could you make some more maps? I don't have any precise request, but if you want somewhere to start, maybe Calabria?

Sure, I've got a little time to spare. I'll work on that one today.

[Antonio the Sixth]

[Filuwaúrdjan]

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

What's with the non-Berlusconista rightist strength just east of Naples? If I remember correctly that was one of the last DC holdout areas, and now it's one of Monti's few pockets of relative strength south of the Po.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Great job Al!

[Keystone Phil]

What's with the non-Berlusconista rightist strength just east of Naples? If I remember correctly that was one of the last DC holdout areas,  and now it's one of Monti's few pockets of relative strength south of the Po.

That's still the reason why: UdC was part of Monti's coalition. They still do well in the rural mountainous areas of Campania.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The pattern of his Northern support has a more than vaguely DC-ish look to it as well. Which is sort of what he was going for.

Anyway, does anyone know why Grillo did so strikingly well in many coastal areas?

[Franknburger]

I fhink maps of the Camera-Senate differentials by Coalition would be interesting, as they could help to better explore the youth vote.

.. and Grillo would be the obvious starting point here. Such information might also shed some more light on why Grillo did so well in coastal areas.

Otherwise, as I have noted on the Campania map:
 

There is quite some coast-inland divide in Campania. Does it have to do with real estate tax, which should be more of an issue for areas depending on tourism, especially if they have a "small pension" kind of accommodation structure? Or is that historical?

Assuming you want to protest against that tax, but not vote for Berlusconi, whom would you vote for? Probably Grillo.

[homelycooking]

[Velasco]

Great maps. Thank you Al and Homely. I'll have to look them carefully in the hope to be able to understand something of this mess. I always found Calabria's shape funny; it looks like a sock --the point of the boot is the conventional comparison, of course.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Thank you Homely!

FYI, my father's home town is that blue municipality at the very south which has a tiny pink enclave inside (so not the enclave itself, but the area that surrounds it).

Great maps. Thank you Al and Homely. I'll have to look them carefully in the hope to be able to understand something of this mess. I always found Calabria's shape funny; it looks like a sock --the point of the boot is the conventional comparison, of course.

Indeed. And Sicily is an oddly shaped stone that the foot is kicking.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Fascinating thread.

Before this crazy election, what were the big historical (like recent historical ) political divides in Italy based on? Religion, region, class mostly? Anyone care to give some specifics to this American poster and European-politics n00b?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Fascinating thread.

Before this crazy election, what were the big historical (like recent historical ) political divides in Italy based on? Religion, region, class mostly? Anyone care to give some specifics to this American poster and European-politics n00b?

I am honestly pretty much a n00b at Italian political geography as well. However, I can say the very strong traditional regional divide in Italy has always been that Northern and Southern regions lean right (some of these, like Veneto, Lombardy, Apulia and Sicily, being pretty solidly right-wing), while the central regions (Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria and Marche) are left-wing strongholds. This is mostly true to this day, although the rise of the M5S has thrown some confusion into this divide, with a very new and original pattern.

BTW, Wikipedia has all the maps, down to the municipality-level, for all elections since WW2 (on their respective pages). You should check them out, they're fascinating.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Most of it is based on Tradition.

[Antonio the Sixth]

What next, Homely? I'll propose Lazio if you have no idea.

[homelycooking]

I'll try a map of the whole country if you give me a week or so.