Population Density Map Us Election

The visualization i made about county election results and comparing land area to population size was very popular around the time of the 2020 presidential election.

Population density map us election. Instead of filling an entire state or county with the color red or blue to indicate which party won. Sometimes election maps hide important factors most crucially population. Click here to view a visualization that looks more explicitly at the correlation between population density andread more.

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

In october 2019 in the lead up to his impeachment trial president donald trump tweeted a map of the 2016 u s. A classic example of this misleading effect in action is in us election maps the proportion of red to blue coloring is not representative of the overall popular vote newman 2016. We love how this map uses a technique called value by alpha to overlay a second layer that varies transparency by population density.

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. How do 2020 presidential election results correlate with population density. Exit polls also found that black and latino men in.

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. The term dasymetric refers to a map that accounts for population density in a given area. Presidential election with results shown at the county level using the standard.

Population density using the state x77 data from the datasets package. As the counties were represented by population it was clear that democratic leaning areas on that map tended to grow in size while republican leaning. Based on that it seems fair that trump won the 2016 election.