New Scottish Plebiscite Results Maps

There are quite a few maps exactly about today showing the results of the Scottish Referendum. Most of the maps, such equally these maps yesteryear City A.M. as well as CTV News, decided to demo the results yesteryear merely shading electoral regions using ii unlike colors, to dot areas where voters voted 'Yes' as well as where voters voted 'No'.

This approach plant good inwards showing the overall vote inwards each electoral region. However because in that place is a broad variation inwards the break of voters inwards each share this approach fails to demo the size of the voting population inwards each region. In fact this approach could genuinely move quite misleading.

For representative inwards the map pictured above, the 'Yes' vote inwards Glasgow looks fairly minor compared to the 'No' vote inwards the Scottish Border merely because the Scottish Borders is a far bigger geographical area. In fact yet Glasgow has 486,219 registered voters, compared to the 95,533 voters inwards the Scottish Borders.


As it turns out the huge numbers of regions voting 'No' compared to the really few regions voting 'Yes' agency that this approach doesn't genuinely distort the overall picture. If the vote had been closer yet this approach could convey been quite misleading.

The alone map which I convey seen which attempts to trouble concern human relationship for the break of voters inwards each share was Oliver O'Brien's Scottish Referendum Data Map. The Scottish Referendum Data Map uses unlike sized round down markers to stand upwards for the registered voting population inwards each electoral region.

The Scottish Referendum Data Map likewise attempts to demo the percent differences inwards the vote shape inwards each electoral share yesteryear using a color scale ranging from vivid cherry for a high percent of no votes to vivid blueish for a high percent of blueish votes.


BBC Scotland has mapped what people convey been maxim nearly Scottish Independence exactly about the world. Using the Google Maps API the BBC has mapped Twitter messages containing the hashtag #'indyref'. The Tweets were sent betwixt the opening of the polls at seven am on xviii September, as well as the proclamation of the determination this morning.

Using the BBC's Tweetmap y'all tin grade the axe come across when as well as where people tweeted exactly about the world. You tin grade the axe fifty-fifty click on the map makers to come across what people had to say.

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