The German Election Candidates Map

On 24th September Deutschland volition become to the polls to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. The Berliner Morgenpost has created a fantastic visualization which helps to explicate who the 2,559 candidates are, what they stand upwards for in addition to where they come upwards from.

Each of the 2,559 candidates inward the 2017 federal election are represented inward the Alle 2559 Direktkandidaten – Wer sie sind, wofür sie stehen visualization past times a colored dot. As yous progress through the visualization these colored dots are continually rearranged to grouping the candidates past times political party, past times professional person / occupational background, past times gender, historic menstruum in addition to past times house of birth.

The house of nascence of all 2,559 candidates is shown past times placing each of the colored dots on a Leaflet map. Unfortunately yous can't zoom inward on the map. Most candidates were born inward Germany. However, because yous can't zoom inward on this big cluster of dots, it is impossible to persuasion the geographical distribution of the candidates' birthplaces inside Germany.

5.4 pct of candidates were born exterior the borders of the Federal Republic. Unfortunately the inability to zoom inward on the map places much to a greater extent than attending on these unusual born candidates. As these unusual born candidates are the exclusively private dots that yous tin brand out on the map's default zoom layer they are the dots that yous are almost probable to interact alongside on the map - alongside the peradventure unintended lawsuit of emphasizing their 'foreignness'.