Us Election Map By Population Density

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.
Us election map by population density. We love how this map uses a technique called value by alpha to overlay a second layer that varies transparency by population density. Full screen version see how this map was made. Election maps are telling you big lies about small things.
The one below shows the county level results for the 2016 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. Click here to view a visualization that looks more explicitly at the correlation between population density andread more.
Sometimes election maps hide important factors most crucially population. Exit polls also found that black and latino men in. The map above is an early attempt to solve the issue by showing vote share by county instead of just showing winner takes all.
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. Based on that it seems fair that trump won the 2016 election. After each of the last four presidential elections university of michigan physicist mark newman produced a series of maps showing the results while rescaling states and counties by population.
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. In detroit where nearly 80 percent of the population is black trump s support grew from its 2016 levels albeit by only 5 000 votes. To look at all the red it would appear republicans dominated the race.
A map of u s. The typical red blue election map is in some ways deceiving. 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.