Random international maps thread

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Canada 1896 (Yellow- Dalton McCarthy, Orange- Patrons of Husbandry

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The BC Ridings are - Victoria- two seat district that is the southern tip of the island's blue, Vancouver, which is not the city of Vancouver (which barely exists yet), but rather the remainder of Vancouver Island, New Westminster, which is the smallest mainland riding, Yale-Cariboo, which is the Interior Riding, and Burrard, which inclues the area around Burrard inlet in the City of Vancouver and the Coast north to the Yukon

Saskatchewan is rather broad, as this is prior to the creation of Saskatchewan and Alberta, when these areas were part of the Northwest Territories. the District of Alberta was somewhat narrower than the post 1905 Province.

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IIRC, 1965 was the first election where ridings covered the entire country

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1900- largely similar ridings

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If I have time. They get harder the further you get from 1867.  Feel free to post them on your atlas blog if it's your base map

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BC, 2006 Federal Election, by Polling Division

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Results of the last 4 presidential elections by Municipality (roughly the same as US Counties):

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1998 Elections


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2002 Elections - 1st round


2002 Elections - 2nd round


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2006 Elections - 1st round


2006 Elections - 2nd round


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2010 Elections - 1st round


2010 Elections - 2nd round


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Its remarkable how in 2010 there was very little change between both rounds, despite the fact that the 3rd Party, PV, whose candidate was Marina Silva, did quite well.

Also sticks out the fact that despite winning a lofty amount of votes in 1998, Lula managed to gain the majority virtually nowhere except for the western half of Rio Grande do Sul, a clear evidence of the never ending influence of the late Leonel Brizola, a far left politician, on that state (and that area particularly).

But even more surprising is how Lula was able to grow so fast between the loss of 1998 and his victory of 2002, and how he flipped the Brazilian political map: before his support was strongest in Rio Grande do Sul, our southernmost state. Whilst it remains the most petista state in the South, its doesn't nearly lean as much to the left as do the Northeastern states.

I don't think America has ever saw, nor will ever see, something like that.

certainly doesn't look like Lula lead 1998...

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So it is. I'll have to go figure out why it did that

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So it is. I'll have to go figure out why it did that

odd. all my data files say the NDP won it. I wonder why it rendered blue?

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2011

 

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And these maps really make BC SOuthern Interior look like an NDP gerrymander. The new riding is much more contiguous to the extent that it has a real name

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Yes, and it's very awkward shaped narrowly connecting two lumps of NDP support

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Mexican Chamber of Deputies, 2012

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

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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

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Vancouver Mayoral , 2011

two-party lead by polling division

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

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Very right, Hatman. 

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

they did

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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

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Effective number of parties by riding, 2011

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Interesting, how did you calculate that?

1 over the sum of squares of each party's portion of the vote, or 1/sumsq([range of party vote shares]) in excel

It's the topic of my next blog post, which will be followed with a by-polling division map for bc and some major cities

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 it'll look something like this when I find my clean polling division files, where ever I put them

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Exceptional work! The work you are doing here is so useful, and something that none of the rest of us have been doing - you are once again proving why the International Elections posters are those of the highest caliber on the Forum!

I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that A) most countries simply have more centralized data than the United States and B) the two-party system produces boring maps

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Got Toronto done.  figured out how to combine elections canada csv files rapidly, so it only took minutes to put together



This one is a different scale than the riding map, though when I put them up on the blog post they'll all be the same scale