2016 Election Map Xkcd

His somewhat belated 2016 election map assigns one figure for every 250 000 votes for each of the 2016 presidential election candidates.

2016 election map xkcd. This article really a re purposed twitter thread compares and contrasts this map with other maps used to attempt to convey the same info and argues the xkcd map might be the best map of the 2016 election you ever see. As randall says in the alt text 1 i like the idea of cartograms distorted population maps but i feel like in. 2016 in case you missed something.

In 2012 georgia voted for romney by a 9 margin. However the ft map is based on the electoral college not the popular vote. However this is a wildly inaccurate representation of proportionality vis à vis the population because all of those little shapes representing.

It made similar use of colorless states for geographic information and color in proportion to population for electoral information. 2016 election map hover text. And for non us people fdr refers to franklin delano roosevelt dem the 32nd president who ignored the informal rule given by the first president george washington not running for more than two times.

Today atlanta still has a ways to go before it hits the pre recession peak population again. The maps that appear from time to time on xkcd are usually a lot more whimsical than the one randall posted today. This work is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial 2 5 license.

I like the idea of cartograms distorted population maps but i feel like in practice they often end up being the worst of both worlds not great for showing geography or counting people. The recession hit atlanta bad between 2009 and 2010 the population dropped by about 120 000 people. Atlanta was 550 000 people in 2008 when georgia voted for mccain by a 5 margin.

2016 election map alt text i like the idea of cartograms distorted population maps but i feel like in practice they often end up being the worst of both worlds not great for showing geography or counting people. The xkcd guy has created a new map of the 2016 election result. A similar map was actually used during the 2016 election by the financial times discussed here.