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[topaz]

The current meme going around seems to be electoral maps. We've all seen the state-by-state electoral breakdown, but here are some of the more interesting versions I've seen:

At http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm, a map of Democratic and Republican votes, broken down by county rather than by state:


At http://www.electoral-vote.com/carto/nov04c.html, a "cartogram," which is apparently a map scaled to population rather than area:


From http://www.boingboing.net. This map describes just the margin of victory. Each state is colored a shade of purple depending on how many Republican (red) or Democrat (blue) votes it got. This gives a much better idea of how mixed the vote was:


moominmolly and claudia_ each posted a purple cartogram, combining the last two ideas. I think they did this independently, but I'm not sure. claudia_ posted her version here:


And moominmolly's is here:


I think this one is my favorite. A purple map drawn by county rather than by state. From KieranHealy.org.


Kieran links to a really huge version of this one: 1547x1053, 400KB.

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Somebody had to do it. The MAP MADNESS must be COAGULATED.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

COUNTY CARTOGRAM!!!

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

How about a purple county cartogram?

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

The PURPLE COUNTY CARTOGRAM is the one that a lot of people have expressed interest in. I think that nobody who has the data and expertise to do this (I sure don't) has had the energy to do it yet. :-)

[jadelennox]

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I found some good congressional district cartograms at http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/Cartogram_Central/goal.html , if someone with the expertise want to colour them in. :)

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's cool! And scary. :-)

Even if I had time, I'm not sure I would want to try coloring it in -- it's too hard to map congressional districts on the cartogram to the ones in the reality-based community. But nice work finding that! :-)