New German Election Maps

Yesterday was the election of the 18th High German Bundestag. The Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany contains 299 constituencies and Google Politics together with Elections has created a Google Map that allows voters to persuasion how the candidates performed inwards all 299 constituencies.

Election maps for High German elections are truly non normally every bit informative every bit election maps tin locomote for other countries. In the United States of America for example, a alive results map inwards a presidential election tin render a proficient visual guide every bit to how candidates are performing together with human activeness every bit an indicator to the probable winner inwards the presidential race.

In Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany withal voters truly convey 2 votes, 1 for the local candidate together with 1 for the political party who they desire to principle the province nationally. The Budestag is separate downwards the middle, amongst one-half the representatives consisting of the local vote winners together with one-half the representatives allocated inwards proportion to the national votes.

Many voters inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany truly separate their vote, voting for 1 political party locally together with for to a greater extent than or less other political party at the national level. Therefore a map showing the winners inwards each constituency inevitably exclusively tells one-half the story together with tin locomote a misleading guide to the national results. However amongst Angela Merkel's Christion Democrat Union having performed together with then good the map does render a useful guide to the overall result.

Sueddeutsche.de has used the Google Maps API to practise The How Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany Voted map. The map shows a breakdown of votes inwards each of the 299 constituencies.

It is every bit good possible to persuasion a breakdown of the minute vote results inwards each constituency, a breakdown of the turnout yesteryear constituency together with compare the 2013 results to the 2009 election results.

The Berliner Morgenpost has released a Google Map of the election results inwards Berlin. The map shows the results inwards each electoral ward together with the candidates from Berlin elected to the Bundestag.

Beneath the map are a expose of filters to display dissimilar map views. These include links to persuasion where at that spot was a high turnout together with where the turnout was peculiarly low, where the results was really closed together with where the most voters voted differently at the local together with national level.

The BBC has created a alive Twitter map of the High German elections. Rather than practise a map of election results the BBC has decided to brand the election itself the focus of the story.

All Eyes on Germany shows where people are tweeting most the High German election. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 clustered marking arrangement shows the expose of Tweets most the election made from locations worldwide. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 heatmap layer every bit good allows you lot to persuasion the expose of election Tweets every bit a choropleth.