{"id":1787379,"date":"2019-05-26T20:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787379"},"modified":"2019-05-26T20:06:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:06:29","slug":"mapping-indias-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/mapping-indias-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping India’s Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re interested in election results maps from around the world, you really ought to be following Maps Mania<\/a>, where Keir provides first-rate coverage<\/a>. Case in point,\u00a0his post about maps of the recent elections to India’s Lok Sabha<\/a>, its lower house of parliament, which points to interactive maps from The Indian Express<\/em> <\/a>and Reuters<\/a> (also\u00a0The Financial Times<\/em>, but that’s behind a paywall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re interested in election results maps from around the world, you really ought to be following Maps Mania, where Keir provides first-rate coverage. Case in point,\u00a0his post about maps of the recent elections to… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[726,337,387],"class_list":["post-1787379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-election-results","tag-elections","tag-india","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787927,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/a-cartogram-of-canadas-election-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787379,"position":0},"title":"A Cartogram of Canada\u2019s Election Results","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 October 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"This cartogram shows the seat-by-seat results of the federal election held last Monday in Canada. 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