Scaling Counties to Map Election Results

Posted: November 29th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

The problem with cartograms is that is can obliterate anything recognizable. Style.org propose to maintain the physical shapes and added scaled symbols to represent the size and proportion of the vote. Scaling each county relative to the number of delegates it elects produces a more accurate visual weighting. Although county size is distorted, the relationships between adjacent counties are preserved. One advantage of this presentation is that the relative voting power of each county is made immediately apparent.

Scaling Counties Election Results

Via Cartography Mapping election results


One Comment on “Scaling Counties to Map Election Results”

  1. 1 pascal said at 2:51 pm on November 29th, 2005:

    hey your back to grahp theory:
    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Four-ColorTheorem.html

    get to the point, werni :-)