Election Map Shades Of Purple

On purple states of america i ve collected state by state data from the last forty years of u s.

Election map shades of purple. This map works because collectively the dots coalesce into a meaningful picture of where there was uniform support. Most people lean towards a position. It was the result of a freshman computer science project developed by dr.

No state is strictly red or blue they are all shades of purple. 3 3 5 more. We created the purple map because pure red and pure blue counties didn t show us the vote margins.

Washington post map showing that the usa as less red v blue and more shades of purple. These purple maps are useful for showing the highly mixed nature of voting but are extremely difficult to interpret in detail. North america posted by 11 days ago.

Howard posted his map on facebook this weekend with a note explaining that most of the country is some shade of. Intense blue indicates votes for hillary clinton and intense red indicates votes for donald trump. A purple america map showing american counties shaded by of vote.

The site first launched with a geographic map of the u s. Most of america is purple while a map with counties colored either red or blue can clearly show which candidate won each county it doesn t tell the whole story. And that s where newman s best map comes in.

Election maps are everywhere. He analyzed the election results by county not state and then added in shades of purple to represent the percentages of votes each party got in. Robert vanderbei an operations engineering.