MAPS AND CARTOGRAMS OF THE 2004 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS

M. T. Gastner, C. R. Shalizi and M. E. J. Newman
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M. T. Gastner: Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
C. R. Shalizi: Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
M. E. J. Newman: Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA;

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2005, vol. 08, issue 01, 117-123

Abstract: Conventional maps of election results can give a misleading picture of the popular support that candidates have because population is highly non-uniform and equal areas on a map may not correspond to equal numbers of voters. Taking the example of the 2004 United States presidential election, we show how this problem can be corrected using a cartogram — a map in which the sizes of regions such as states are rescaled according to population or some other variable of interest.

Keywords: Map; cartogram; election (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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