Repeal The Eighth Plebiscite Results Maps

Republic of Ireland has voted overwhelmingly to overturn its ban on abortions. With a two-thirds bulk the yeah vote won a plebiscite to abolish the eighth amendment of the Irish Gaelic constitution, an amendment which has made abortions illegal inwards Ireland. The Irish Gaelic authorities has at i time promised to overturn the ban in addition to allow legal terminations yesteryear the cease of the year.

The Irish Gaelic Times has created a uncomplicated interactive choropleth map which effectively shows the landslide victory for the 'Yes' vote across nearly the whole of Ireland. The Irish Gaelic Times Referendum Results map uses merely 2 colors (blue for 'Yes' in addition to ruby-red for 'No') to exhibit the overall termination inwards each constituency. Using entirely 2 colors for the map's choropleth color ramp is an effective means to visualize how every unmarried constituency inwards the country, apart from Donegal, had a bulk voting 'Yes'.

Of shape at that topographic point were diverse levels of back upwards for the 'Yes' vote inwards the dissimilar constituencies. The Irish Gaelic Times map shows this yesteryear allowing users to hover over each constituency to encounter the percent of 'Yes' in addition to 'No' votes. The map also has the pick to hold off a petty to a greater extent than closer at the 'Yes' in addition to 'No' votes inwards each constituency. Click on the 'Yes %' or 'No %' buttons in addition to to a greater extent than color stops are added to the color palette to hand an overall sentiment of the percent of 'Yes' in addition to 'No' voters inwards each constituency.


The Guardian's choropleth map of the plebiscite results uses to a greater extent than colors. Under 50%, or a no vote, is shown inwards red. So Donegal all the same stands out on the map equally the entirely constituency where a bulk voted 'No'. The Guardian's role of half-dozen colors to exhibit the dissimilar percentages for voting 'Yes' reveals that constituencies inwards Dublin (the cut-out map) were most strongly inwards favor of repealing the 8th.

It is a petty also simplistic to state that back upwards for the 'Yes' vote roughly radiates out from Dublin but the map does exhibit a modest tendency for back upwards for the 'Yes' vote to autumn away a petty the farther a constituency is from the capital. However at that topographic point are in all likelihood also many outliers to this full general tendency to hand it also much significance.