Random international maps thread

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Interesting the overlap between the DSDAP in 1920 and the SDP in 1935 (at least in that western rim).

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Interesting the overlap between the DSDAP in 1920 and the SDP in 1935 (at least in that western rim).

Not that interesting; just the one was the party that most Germans voted for in 1920 and the other the party that most Germans voted for in 1935. Obviously a German nationalist party was not going to do very well in majority Czech districts.

Well, perhaps he meant "interesting" more in the presence of overlap between socialists and Nazis, but that either isn't much surprising given that Sudetenland was poor and working-class, thus hit hard in 1929, thus strongly Nazi in 1935. Of course, Henlein's machine appealed to like 80% of Sudeten Germans by 1935.

Yes, this - including that the people most likely to have been willing to listen to Nazi rhetoric about economic problems are probably also the people most likely to be willing to vote socialist.

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Great map! I love these very historic ones! Look at your part of the world - Victoria/Van Island South, Vancouver/Fraser Valley, Inland, and a coastal riding - does it include the remainder of Vancouver Island, or is that a separate riding?

Saskatchewan appears rather broad - am I mistaken, or have the provincial boundaries there changed? If so, did they change with Alberta, or with Manitoba? My gut, just looking at this, is that the boundary changed with Alberta.

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Regardless of the accuracy of that poll, it is an awesome map!

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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

I think it has more to do with the fact that the international posters on here are less likely to be 16 years old. Additionally, given that in the US, elections for all levels of government are held at the same time, so speculation for about 18 months is very arbitrary, whereas Canada is less likely to go that long between an election somewhere at either a provincial or federal level. Plus, it's more than likely that the party leaders, at least federally, are almost certainly going to be the same at the election as they are currently, whereas in the US, we can be speculating years prior to the Presidential election, just who the candidates will be. There just doesn't tend to be as much in-depth looking at previous results, and more idle speculation about future election results...