Election Map By Population Density, Where Democrats And Republicans Live In Your City Fivethirtyeight

Louis is the only city that exceeds that density in a red state.

Electron js vuejs. By mapping data at the county level at a resolution of 100 votes. Red states simply run out of population at about 2000 people per square mile. Sometimes election maps hide important factors most crucially population.

It may seem surprising that the result is little different than the actual 306 232 result excluding faithless given that clinton won the popular vote. Election maps are telling you big lies about small things. Populations alone dont win presidential elections.

While many maps show the outcome of the 2016 us presidential election this one illustrates how the votes were distributed across the country. At united states population density map page view political map of united states physical maps usa states map satellite images photos and where is united states location in world map. Full screen version see how this map was made.

People see maps of any type and particularly election maps as the result. To look at all the red it would appear republicans dominated the race. We love how this map uses a technique called value by alpha to overlay a second layer that varies transparency by population density.

The typical redblue election map is in some ways deceiving. Its similar to the population weighted map but some smaller. The map above is an early attempt to solve the issue by showing vote share by county instead of just showing winner takes all.

We love how this map employs a unique approach in dot density mappingeach dot represents a single vote from the 130 million total votes. The term dasymetric refers to a map that accounts for population density in a given area. Map created by larry weru at stemlounge.

This map sizes states based on the number of electoral votes. It gives a better idea of the popular vote for the 2012 us presidential election. The map above is one of several attempts to improve on the somewhat famous 2016 us presidential election map which you can see below.

This interactive map shows the number of electoral votes each state would have if only census population was considered and applies it to the 2016 presidential election. The one below shows the county level results for the 2016 election.