{"id":1809729,"date":"2022-11-07T10:24:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1809729"},"modified":"2022-11-07T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:24:48","slug":"maps-manias-election-map-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/11\/maps-manias-election-map-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps Mania\u2019s Election Map Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shoutout to Keir Clarke at Maps Mania, whose coverage of election maps<\/a> is such that whenever I think, \u201chey, that country just had an election<\/a>, I ought to write a post collecting some maps of the results,\u201d I usually find that Keir has already beaten me to the punch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A shoutout to Keir Clarke at Maps Mania, whose coverage of election maps is such that whenever I think, \u201chey, that country just had an election, I ought to write a post collecting some maps… 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":[499,330],"tags":[1422,337],"class_list":["post-1809729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-blogs-newsletters","category-politics","tag-election-maps","tag-elections","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787379,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/mapping-indias-elections\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809729,"position":0},"title":"Mapping India’s Elections","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 May 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"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. 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