Election Hexagon Map, 1997 United Kingdom General Election Wikipedia

In this post i suggest to represent the number of wedding per thousand people.

Election card fees. Hex heat map showing electorate size. Or into equal sized pieces like hexes. One hex per seat.

He adjusted northern ireland to make. The version below is pre loaded with a bunch of public election data compiled by the amazing alasdair rae. Dorling noted this was a pretty good fit for uk political geography.

View our live results map for the 2019 general election weve created a pointy topped hex map of uk parliamentary constituencies to show each constituency with equal visual weight. Since i had not seen an election hex map for ireland yet. I thought i would attempt to make one for the february 2020 general election.

Yellow is a larger electorate. Uk hex map of the 2015 general election results. A hex map is ideal for visualizing this data because by equalizing the size and shape of the states you can more easily focus on the differences across the data.

The map is paired with a dumbbell chart which is itself a version of a dot plot. View the constituency hex map and get the code on github. One way to map the results is to have the constituencies split up.

Purple is a smaller electorate. Obviously weve had to make some compromises but the hex layout is open if you want to make changes. Hex maps are a form of cartogram meaning that the geography is adjusted such that regions of equal importance eg.

In the case of a hex cartogram each region is represented as one or more hexagons. The data have been found here and stored on a clean format here. Hover over a hexagon to see the data for that constituency including the last general election result previous turnout and the eu referendum vote.

Either geographically so split into parts based on how many seats it has. We knew we had to use a map to visualize national election data at the state level but the. Hexagons have been used as a framework for mapping since at least 1895they were also promoted by danny dorling in the 1980s as a method for mapping election results because they are close to circular and thus pleasing on the eye and they tesselate well providing flexibility and six shared boundaries each.

By population or electoral significance take up the same area on the map.