Us Election Map Weighted By Population

Based on that it seems fair that trump won the 2016 election.

Us election map weighted by population. The 2016 election made many people aware that the way electoral votes are distributed gives residents of sparsely populated states more clout than those in large states. To get around the challenges of relying on the standard world map roser instead has made a population cartogram based on 2018 population figures. It s similar to the population weighted map but some smaller states like wyoming and vermont are somewhat bigger while more populous states like california and texas are a bit smaller.

To take the two extremes california gets 55 electoral votes for 37 3 million people 2010 census or one electoral vote for approximately each 680 000 people. The abc news 2020 electoral map shows state by state votes on the path to win the 2020 presidential election. 90 212 558 0046 email.

It may seem surprising that the result is little different than the actual 306 232 result excluding faithless given that clinton won the popular vote. The map above is an early attempt to solve the issue by showing vote share by county instead of just showing winner takes all. People see maps of any type and particularly election maps as the result the outcome but there are so many different types of maps available that can portray results in shades of the truth.

The map above shows the population 18. This visualization shows the number of weighted votes a citizen has in each us state. The map above is one of several attempts to improve on the somewhat famous 2016 us presidential election map which you can see below.

This interactive map shows the number of electoral votes each state would have if only census population was considered and applies it to the 2016 presidential election. This is determined as follows. Weighted votes total us population total us electoral votes state population state electoral votes the national average number of weighted votes per person is 1 but some states have as much as 3 per person and some fewer than 1.