Every Menage Of Representatives Election

Electing the House of Electives is a novel interactive information visualization of every House of Representatives election since earlier the Civil War. The map allows y'all to explore the historical swings of political ability at both the national marker and, closer to home, at the regional level.

The interactive map is slowly to navigate. You tin sack sentiment the election results for whatsoever twelvemonth only yesteryear selecting a twelvemonth from the timeline beneath the map. This timeline besides acts equally a nautical chart showing the seat out of Republican as well as Democrat representatives elected inwards each election. The map itself is colored to exhibit which political party won inwards each district. If y'all click on a district on the map y'all tin sack sentiment the elevate of the winning illustration as well as the percent of their vote.

The map allows y'all to switch betwixt a choropleth as well as a cartogram view. The cartogram sentiment provides a ameliorate moving-picture exhibit of the political remainder across the population equally it to a greater extent than accurately visualizes the urban vote which is under-represented inwards the choropleth view.

Electing the House of Electives was created yesteryear the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond as well as the Department of History at Virginia Tech. The information for the maps comes from a seat out of sources. This information tin sack hold upwards downloaded from Virginia Tech.