Random international maps thread

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This is a lot of fun

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I feel like a large print of that would make really nice wall-art

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The UK, same scale as the Canadian riding by riding maps



and the US

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The high number of parties in New York is not really indicative of more diverse partisanship. Voters there may have the choice between the Democratic, Working Families, Conservative, Republican, Independent and Liberal parties, but I think that any Empire State voter who pays even the slightest attention to the ballot on which he votes will understand how electoral fusion contributes to the dominance of the two major parties.

It would seem that electoral fusion allows for the existence of third parties at all, compared to the rest of the country

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Great maps.

The US map is a bit dull, though: Districts with a dominant party are red, New York has some small parties like the Conservative Party, Working Families Party. Any other interesting stuff?

The UK map is interesting. There seems to be a slight correlation between Labour results and a more diverse partisanship. This would also explain a part of the Labour bias of British FPTP (other explanations are of course low turnout and shrinking populations in Labour strongholds).

If you manage to get Indian data in the right format and do a map, that would be great!

If you have Indian shapefiles, please send!

Since you brought up the two, here's the US and the UK scaled against their own averages, rather than the Canadian average

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nonetheless, New York third parties do from time to time run their own candidates. the Conservative Party even elected a United States Senator in the 1970s

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what are the averages? I vuagely remember reading something like 1.9 fir the US and 2.4 for UK, Canada somewhere in between>

Nation wide ENP

Canada: 3.43
US (House): 2.15
UK: 3.72

Constituency Average:

Canada: 2.58
US (House): 1.84
UK: 2.96

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Is it safe for me to assume that the attribute field "IDEN" is a concatination of the Department Number and the Constituency Number?

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Down to the canton? Mon Dieu!

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Ask and ye shall receive

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Fort McMurray-Athabasca 2011. one dot = 1 vote

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For what it's worth, last French presidential election of 2012 was ENP = 4.77, and the current EP elction in France is ca. 5.85.

The Netherlands should be quite fun in that regard !

edit : yes, present polling for next Dutch general election is at 7.73 ENP...

Unfortunately, though, the Dutch don't have constituencies :<