New Alive Australian Election Maps

ABC are using Google Maps every minute utilization of their alive online reporting of the Australian election results. Results are appearing on the map every minute they are announced inwards the dissimilar electoral seats.

The map includes options to stance the electrical flow political party belongings each seat, ABC's predications inwards each spot in addition to to stance which seats convey changed hands.


Google has created their ain Live Election Map. Electoral seats are beingness shaded on the map every minute the results come upward inwards in addition to a running full of the seats won yesteryear each political party is displayed inwards the map sidebar.

The map likewise allows you lot to choose your local expanse to stance the alive count inwards your electorate in addition to cash inwards one's chips on rails of intelligence stories every minute they break.


The Guardian's Australian Election Results 2013 map is taking a dissimilar approach. Because of the huge variations inwards the size of Australian electorates shading the map to demo the results for each political party tin hold upward visually confusing. The coalition tend to perform amend inwards the geographically larger seats - resulting inwards maps looking largely blueish fifty-fifty if the other parties are performing amend than the coalition.

The Guardian's map thence shows all the electorates every minute circles sized yesteryear population in addition to loosely tied to their geographic location. However The Guardian map seems to demo the electrical flow incumbent inwards each spot in addition to is updating each spot every minute the results are announced. This introduces a dissimilar work to the map every minute it is non clear inwards each spot whether the map is showing the lawsuit from the 2013 election or the electrical flow incumbent from the 2010 election (although this work volition plainly hold upward resolved when all the seats convey announced).

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