{"id":1787927,"date":"2019-10-24T19:35:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T23:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787927"},"modified":"2019-10-24T19:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T23:35:03","slug":"a-cartogram-of-canadas-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/a-cartogram-of-canadas-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cartogram of Canada\u2019s Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This cartogram<\/a> shows the seat-by-seat results of the federal election held last Monday in Canada. It was uploaded to Wikipedia by user Mark Gargul to illustrate the 2019 Canadian federal election<\/a> article, and it\u2019s a welcome departure from the usual election results maps in this country.<\/p>\n

(An example of the usual results map is Elections Canada\u2019s official map of the unofficial results<\/a>, in PDF format.)<\/p>\n

Canadian election results maps generally use geographic maps, usually the Lambert conformal conic projection<\/a> that most maps of Canada use<\/a> (though sometimes it\u2019s the Mercator!) rather than cartograms. Which means that Canadian maps suffer from the same \u201cempty land doesn\u2019t vote<\/a>\u201d problem that U.S. maps have, though it\u2019s mitigated by the fact that vast rural and northern seats are often won by different parties: you don\u2019t have the same sea of one colour that you get in the States.<\/p>\n

That said, Canada is overwhelmingly urban, and so are its electoral districts. Most election results maps resort to using multiple inset maps to show the urban results. (Elections Canada\u2019s map has 29 of them.) Gargul\u2019s cartogram sidesteps both problems neatly; on the other hand, it\u2019s next to impossible to find your own damn constituency (it\u2019s hidden in the mouseover text). If the disadvantage of empty-land election results maps is that the colours aren\u2019t representative, their advantage is that you can tell what regions voted for whom, at least if you know your geography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This cartogram shows the seat-by-seat results of the federal election held last Monday in Canada. It was uploaded to Wikipedia by user Mark Gargul to illustrate the 2019 Canadian federal election article, and it\u2019s a… 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":[131,337],"class_list":["post-1787927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-canada","tag-elections","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787936,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/more-canadian-election-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787927,"position":0},"title":"More Canadian Election Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 October 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennethfield\/status\/1187093377231314947 I hit \u201cPublish\u201d too soon last night. 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Both countries have overwhelmingly urban populations (Australia 87%, Canada 82%) and vast tracts of sparsely populated territory, which means that strictly geographical election maps of both countries suffer from the \u201cempty land doesn\u2019t vote\u201d problem. 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