{"id":1807400,"date":"2022-05-24T18:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1807400"},"modified":"2022-05-24T18:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:31:15","slug":"australian-federal-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/05\/australian-federal-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Federal Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MapLeading up to last Saturday\u2019s federal election in Australia, ABC News Australia had a page<\/a> explaining the usual problem with geographic electoral maps when sparsely populated rural districts are enormous and lots of voters are concentrated in the cities. Calling the page \u201cThe Australian electoral map has been lying to you<\/a>\u201d might<\/em> have been torquing things a bit, though. Then again, via Maps Mania<\/a>, live election results maps from The Australian<\/em><\/a> and The Guardian<\/em><\/a> both use straight geographic maps, so maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading up to last Saturday\u2019s federal election in Australia, ABC News Australia had a page explaining the usual problem with geographic electoral maps when sparsely populated rural districts are enormous and lots of voters are… 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":[496,726,337],"class_list":["post-1807400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-australia","tag-election-results","tag-elections","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1840343,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/05\/empty-land-doesnt-vote-and-neither-do-kangaroos-what-australian-and-canadian-election-maps-do-and-dont-do-about-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":1807400,"position":0},"title":"Empty Land Doesn\u2019t Vote (and Neither Do Kangaroos): What Australian and Canadian Election Maps Do (and Don\u2019t Do) About It","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 May 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Both Australia and Canada had federal elections last week. 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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