Spanish Election Results on Google Maps

El Microscopio del Voto

Vizzuality have a history of producing some of the most interesting and beautiful Google Maps applications. Their latest effort for the Spanish broadcaster RTVE is up their with the best of them.

The map presents the 2011 Spanish electoral results in the context of historical electoral results and a vast range of demographic indicators. Using the map you can view electoral results since 1987 and discover how the electoral and socio-economic landscape of Spain has evolved over the last few decades.

The map allows you to visualise 15 datasets at 3 different administrative levels over more than 20 years. All the data is visualised on the map using colour coded custom tiles and the result is a great looking map that presents a huge amount of data via a user friendly interface.

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Google Maps, Fusion Tables & Elections

Canada & UK Post-Elections Round-up

Patrick Cain this week has spotted some post-election Google Maps from the Vancouver Sun and The Guardian.

In Canada the Vancouver Post's map looks at the loss of seats by the federal Liberal party in British Columbia, whilst The Guardian maps the results of the British referendum on the Alternative Voting system.

The Guardian's map shows how there was very little support for the Alternative Voting system outside of a few London boroughs, the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge and central Glasgow and Edinburgh.

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The Alternative Voting Map

The Telegraph AV Map

The UK yesterday held a referendum on whether to change the way it votes for government to the alternative voting (AV) system. The Telegraph newspaper has created a Google Map to show what the 2010 UK general election might have looked like if it had been held under AV.

The Telegraph have used the results of a survey asking voters how they would rank the parties in order of preference if a new AV electoral system was introduced. They have then used this data to try and predict how the 2010 UK general election might have panned out under the alternative voting system.

The map lets you view the real results of the 2010 election and the adjusted results.

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The Singapore Election on Google Maps

Singapore Electoral Map 2011

Singapore will be holding parliamentary elections on 7th May.

One quirk of the Singapore electoral system is that constituency boundaries are changed for each election. This can be quite confusing for voters so Singapore Maps has created this Google Map to help voters discover which constituency they are in.

Users can enter an address or postcode to find out their constituency. The constituency boundaries are also clearly displayed on the map. If you click on the map you can also find out which candidates are standing in each constituency for both political parties.

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Canadian Elections on Google Maps

Canada's General Election is fast approaching (May 2nd) and the Google Maps are coming thick and fast.

The Gazette: Get to Know Your Candidate

If you want to know which candidates are standing in your area then use this Google Map from the Montreal Gazette.

To find out who your electoral candidates are just click on the map or select your riding from a drop-down menu. The candidates standing in your area are then listed below the map.

The map also includes an option to explore the ridings by gender. If you select this option you can view how many female candidates are standing in each riding in Canada.

2008 Election Results

This Google Map from cyberpresse lets you explore the 2008 election results. If you select your district from the drop-down menu you can view the results and the turn-out percentage.

Political Financing Map

Cyberpresse has also created this Google Map that lets you explore political donations to the political parties.

When you click on a dot, an information window will appear with the name of a donor, the date a contribution was made, the donation amount, the party to which this donation was made and the riding association or candidate that received the donation.

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Coalition Turning Google Maps Blue

NSW Electorate Map

On Saturday New South Wales, Australia held its state election. The Sydney Morning Herald has produced this Google Map to visualise the results in each electorate.

The map is coloured-coded so that you can tell at a glance which party won in each electorate. If you click on any of the individual electoral regions the results of the election are displayed in the map sidebar.

Via: All Things Spatial

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Track Your Canadian MP on Google Maps

RepresentMe

If you live in Ottawa, Canada then RepresentMe can help you find out who your elected representative is and what they've done lately.

When you enter your postcode RepresentMe will display your electoral ward on a Google Map and tell you who your Member of Parliament, Member of Provincial Parliament and City Councillor are.

RepresentMe also displays the recent activity of your elected representatives, including their recent voting record and mentions in press articles.

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Voting Help from Google Maps

Google Election Center

Google have released an experimental service called Google Election Center that lets election officials provide data directly to Google. Developers can then access the data by embedding an open source Election Center gadget on their websites, or use the gadget code or an API to build their own application.

The Election Center gadget allows voters to enter their address and find their nearest polling station on a Google Map. The API allows developers to retrieve polling location and candidate information for a specific election, given an address.

The Google Election Center can also be accessed on mobile phones from the dedication mobile site m.google.com/elections

Via: Google LatLong

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Australian Demographics on Google Maps

NuMaps

NuMap is a Google Maps based application to view and analyse demographic data for any Australian Federal Government Electorate.

Using the map it is possible to view a large number of demographic datasets for any Federal electorate. To start exploring the data you first need to choose an electorate from the myElectorate Panel. Once you have selected an electorate it will be highlighted on the map. You can then open the DemographicDrapes Panel and select the demographic data that you wish to view.

You can use the DemographicDrapes panel to analyse different aspects of your chosen electorate. The datasets include gender, housing, income, birthplace and many more.

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Midterm Elections Google Map

2010 U.S. Election Ratings Map

Google have teamed up with Cook, Rothenberg, CQ-Roll Call and RealClearPolitics to create a Google Map to display the current ratings of the Democrats and Republicans in the midterm elections.

The map uses Google Fusion Tables with the Google Maps API v3. Google have even provided a tutorial to show you how you can build your own similar intensity map with custom boundaries.

The states are shaded on the map according to one of the sources’ ratings of the Senate race. If you click on the sidebar links you can switch between the House or Governor races. The data on the map will be updated daily based on the latest ratings.

Via: Official Google Blog

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Live Australian Election Map

ABC.net Interactive Map - 2010 Federal Election

The results in so far in the Australian general election make this the tightest race in decades. At the time of writing pundits are saying the results are too close to call but that it looks likely that neither the ruling Labor party nor the opposition coalition will gain the 76 seats needed to win outright.

ABC Australia have produced a Google Map to display the results of the election as they are announced. The map lets you explore Australia's 150 electorates. You can click on any of the electorates to display detailed results.

The map also includes an overlay showing the overall results and the current vote share for each of the parties. The map has buttons so that you view at a glance which electorates have changed seats and also view ABC's predictions.

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Oregon's 1.8 Million Voters on Google Maps

Ground Game

Ground Game, from Moonshadow Mobile, is an amazing mobile phone based canvassing tool that gives access to current registered voter information via Google Maps. The tool provides political canvassers with maps of the neighborhood they are walking that show the locations of individual houses containing the voters they are targeting.

With the application you can view relevant information about voters. The application also allows campaign managers to track in real time the location of canvassers on the ground. To view the full capabilities of the application you really should view the video above.

Voter Mapping

From the same developers as Ground Game comes this Google Map of Oregon's 1.8 million voters. Using the map you can zoom in on any area of the state and instantly see voter density and voter registration.

The Voter Mapping site uses the technology that was developed for the Ground Game app for political candidates.

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Australian Elections on Google Maps

Australian Federal Election

Following yesterday's post about Brazilian Election Maps Arek of All Things Spatial got in touch to inform me that Google have also produced a Google Map for this year's Australian federal election.

Users of the map can explore their federal electorate on a map, see who holds power, and by how much. Closer to the election users will also be able to use the map to find their closest polling booth.

As well as the Google Map there are also links to election search trends, a Vibewire Youth Media and YouTube special to bring fresh video reporting at the Australian federal election and Student Voice 2010. Student Voice 2010 is a project to let children have their own Australian election.

If you are so inclined you can also check out the 2007 Australian Federal Election Map.

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Mapping the Brazilian Election

The Brazilian general election of 2010 will be held on Sunday, October 3, 2010. Ahead of the election Google have produced a dedicated web page showing search trends for the candidates and a Google Map of the candidates' campaigns.

Follow the Candidates

Google have produced this Google Map to show the candidates' campaigns during the election. For each point visited by the candidates you can view content such as news, photos and videos.

Historic Elections Map
Google have also produced this Google Map that shows the results of every Brazilian election since 1994. You can select to view both presidential and governor election results on the map.

Rota do Planalto

Brazilian website Voto Certo have produced their own Google Map to help inform voters ahead of the election.

Rota do Planalto allows voters to view the campaigns of the presidential candidates since January 2010. The map shows the campaign journeys made by Rousseff (PT), José Serra (PSDB) and Silva (PV) in the months from January to July. The campaign of Plinio de Arruda Sampaio is mapped from May, when the PSOL named his candidacy.

In addition to viewing all events on a single map, you can also pick a candidate and view their calendar for the period. Another option is to compare routes between two candidates in the same month. Each marker on the map, shows the details of the event or YouTube videos or photos with a link to the news sources.

Hat-tip: Mibazaar

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The Dutch Election on Google Maps

Verkiezingskaart

The 2010 Dutch general election will be held on Wednesday, 9 June 2010. Verkiezingskaart will be displaying all the results as they are announced on Google Maps. The data for the results are coming directly from the company supplying the software to count the votes. Therefore, using Verkiezingskaart, should be one of the fastest ways to get the results of the Dutch election.

Currently the site is displaying the results of the 2006 general election. The map uses coloured polygons to display who holds a majority in each constituency. The Christian Democrats are displayed in green and the Labour Party in red.

If you roll over any of the constituencies on the map you can view a detailed breakdown of the 2006 election results for the area. It is also possible to view the election results for 2002 and 2003 on the map.

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Real-Time UK Elections Map

UK Voter Turnout Map

For the UK Elections it doesn't seem that that anyone has bothered to create a real-time Google Map to show the results as they come in. Instead we have Tweetminster's Voter Turnout Map.

Inspired by Ben Marsh's now legendary #UKsnow map, the Voter Turnout Map visualises voter turnout (of Twitter users at least) on a Google Map

To add yourself to the map tweet #ukvote alongside the first half of your post code (for example #ukvote SE1) and your turnout will be plotted in real-time on a Google Map.

You can also view the Voter Turnout map on The Guardian's website.

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The UK Election on Google Maps

There doesn't seem to be much evidence that Google will be producing a Google Map to show the results of the UK General Election to be held on Thursday of this week. The Guardian, Channel 4 and Tweetminster have teamed up to produce a map of votes in real time. The map is inspired by Ben Marsh's now legendary #UKsnow map.

So far there doesn't seem to be any clues as to which mapping service will be used but I expect it will be either Google Maps or Open Street Map. The map itself will show Tweets including the tag #ukvote alongside the first half of a post code. The map will not be showing who people have voted for just who has voted.

For this election there has already been a number of Google Maps mashups that are using Twitter to show real-time comments on the campaigns of the main political parties in the run-up to polling day:

Geo.me: UK General Election

Geo.me has produced this Google Map to display geotagged tweets over a constituency map of Britain.

The map displays the new 2010 constituency boundaries released as Ordnance Survey Open Data, coloured by the notional 2005 election results, as provided by the Guardian Data Store.

Twit Vote UK
If you can't wait until Thursday to cast your vote then you can vote on Twit Vote UK. Using Twitter and Google Maps Twit Vote UK hopes to give an overview of people's voting intentions around the country.

If you have a twitter account, you can vote using the format,

"@twitvoteuk, postcode, political party"

Your vote will then be displayed on the map based on your postcode. You can only tweet your opinion once every 24 hours.

Electwits.co.uk

Electwits.co.uk is another Twitter and Google Maps application trying to track the real-time conversations around the upcoming UK general election. The application tracks the positive and negative comments made on Twitter about the leaders of the three main political parties in the UK.

To post your support for a party leader simply tweet the politician's name, a happy smiley, your postcode and the tag #electwits. For example, "Nick Clegg is the boss :-) #electwits SW1"

If you Tweet your postcode your message will appear on the Google Map. The application also displays a number of graphs to show the number of positive comments made about each of the three candidates for Prime Minister.

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UK Election Twitter Maps

Electwits.co.uk

Electwits.co.uk is another Twitter and Google Maps application trying to track the real-time conversations around the upcoming UK general election. The application tracks the positive and negative comments made on Twitter about the leaders of the three main political parties in the UK.

To post your support for a party leader simply tweet the politician's name, a happy smiley, your postcode and the tag #electwits. For example, "Nick Clegg is the boss :-) #electwits SW1"

If you Tweet your postcode your message will appear on the Google Map. The application also displays a number of graphs to show the number of positive comments made about each of the three candidates for Prime Minister.

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Twit Vote UK

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UK Election Twitter Map

Twit Vote UK
I know, I know ... as if there weren't enough twits voting in the UK already.

The UK is holding a general election on the 6th May. If you can't wait until then to cast your vote then you can vote on Twit Vote UK. Using Twitter and Google Maps Twit Vote UK hopes to give an overview of people's voting intentions around the country.

If you have a twitter account, you can vote using the format,

"@twitvoteuk, postcode, political party"

Your vote will then be displayed on the map based on your postcode. You can only tweet your opinion once every 24 hours.

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UK General Election on Google Maps

General Elections 2010

A general election is fast approaching in the UK and Google have created a website to help constituents find out who is their current member of parliament and who are the 2010 election candidates for their seat.

Users just need to enter their postcode and their location will be shown on a Google Map. It is then possible to view who is the sitting MP, the results of the last election and the candidates for the upcoming election.

Links are also given to the blogs and Twitter pages of candidates.

Hat-tip: Mapperz

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