Election Results Map By Population Density

Software engineer and illustrator chris howard created this map of the presidential election results adjusted by population density to produce a map that shows a far different picture of the.

Election results map by population density. 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. 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. It is a dasymetric map which means instead of dots filling collection areas uniformly they are reallocated to.

The term dasymetric refers to a map that accounts for population density in a given area. 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. It looks like a landslide because visually it is.

How do 2020 presidential election results correlate with population density. However this is a wildly inaccurate representation of proportionality vis à vis the population because all of those little shapes representing counties have vastly different amounts of people. The map above is an early attempt to solve the issue by showing vote share by county instead of just showing winner takes all.

In october 2019 in the lead up to his impeachment trial president donald trump tweeted a map of the 2016 u s. While many maps show the outcome of the 2016 us presidential election this one illustrates how the votes were distributed across the country. It gives a better idea of the popular vote for the 2012 us presidential election.

What you re seeing is a map of how each county in the united states voted in the 2016 presidential election red republican blue democrat. The map above is one of several attempts to improve on the somewhat famous 2016 us presidential election map which you can see below. 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.

Trump won approximately. Based on that it seems fair that trump won the 2016 election. Presidential election with results shown at the county level using the standard.