How Sweden's Election Changed The Map

Sweden's national populace telly broadcaster Sveriges Television has created an interesting information visualization of the votes cast inwards this week's Swedish election. It has mapped the overall winner inwards each election constituency to demonstrate where each political political party won the almost votes.

In the Swedish Vote each constituency is shown equally a colored dot. The color of each point represents the political political party that received the almost votes inwards that constituency. Using a point to correspond each constituency agency that SVT speedily come across a familiar occupation when creating election maps. Sweden’s population is concentrated inwards the biggest cities. It is thence harder to regard all of the dots representing the constituencies inwards the tightly packed urban areas than it is to regard the to a greater extent than spread apart dots representing the to a greater extent than rural constituencies.


SVT overcome this occupation past times changing the shape of the map. In gild to brand the election results to a greater extent than legible the broadcaster reshapes the province together with then that all the dots are easier to see. In other words information literacy has been improved at the expense of geographical accuracy. The resulting unfamiliar geography is partly overcome past times animating betwixt the to a greater extent than geographically right map together with the novel cartogram.

This animating of the dots representing each constituency continues equally you lot progress through the Swedish Vote. Later the dots are rearranged into a grid to demonstrate to a greater extent than clearly the publish of constituencies won past times each party. This grid together with the cartogram are too repeated for the results of the 2014 election together with then that readers tin arrive at the axe compare the consequence of this year's election amongst Sweden's previous election.