Election Map By Population Density

The map above is one of several attempts to improve on the somewhat famous 2016 us presidential election map which you can see below.

Election map by population density. This map sizes states based on the number of electoral votes. In this case the dots are constrained to areas where people live. Here s another map i made that looks at the 2016 and 2020 presidential election by county and shows the size of each county by land area or population.

Add color layer and density. Add a second layer and choose population density as the variable to map. The bottom layer is a standard choropleth or in this case a red blue map of counties showing the predominance of republican or democratic voting.

We love how this map employs a unique approach in dot density mapping each dot represents a single vote from the 130 million total votes. Click here to view a visualization that looks more explicitly at the correlation between population density andread more. Election maps are telling you big lies about small things.

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

Map created by larry weru at stemlounge. The one below shows the county level results for the 2016 election. Instead of filling an entire state or county with the color red or blue to indicate which party won.

County level election results from 2020 and 2016 the map has been updated to include the latest 2020 results and also adds the option to color the circles by the win margin rather than just looking at the winner. I think this gives a more accurate picture of how the states voted because it also gives a sense of the relative weight of those states votes. The term dasymetric refers to a map that accounts for population density in a given area.