![]() Each district will send one representative to the House to represent the people. Now, let's say we need to divide this state into five districts. And just our luck, they all live in a nice even grid with the Blues on one side of the state and the Reds on the other. Thirty of them belong to the Blue Party, and 20 belong to the Red Party. Suppose we have a very tiny state of fifty people. If you find the notion confusing, check out the chart above - adapted from one posted to Reddit this weekend - and wonder no more. ![]() Gerrymandering - drawing political boundaries to give your party a numeric advantage over an opposing party - is a difficult process to explain. The Washington Post recently published this simple but very effective visual explanation of Gerrymandering: How to steal an election: a visual guide Thanks to Mike Wirth for sharing on Facebook! ![]() Totals below were true at the time of writing but may no longer currently be accurate as additional votes and recounts are conducted. Map created using 270 To Win, based on reddit user Taillesskangaru’s posts here and updated here.ĭisclaimer: The map above was accurate as of January 17th, 2017. Total voter turnout was estimated to be 55.3% of the voting age population and 59.0% of the voting eligible population. The map above shows what the 2016 US Presidential Election results would have been if votes not cast for Hillary, Trump or one of the third party candidates had gone to fictional candidate “Did Not Vote.”Īs a percentage of eligible voters, Clinton received 28.43% (65,845,063) of all votes compared to Trump’s 27.20% (62,980,160) and Did Not Vote’s 44.37%(102,731,399). The "Did Not Vote" candidate would have have gathered 41% of the total votes from the voting eligible population, and 471 votes from the Electoral College! A Landslide! A Presidential candidate needs 270 Electoral College votes to win. Ad airplane America animals animated apple Apps art auto beer blog body book brand bubble budget business caffeine Calendar campaign cars CEO Characters chart charts Christmas circles client clothes color colors comic companies comparison computers conference connections contest Cooking cool corporations Data data visualization DataViz death design Digg discount drinks earth education election email emissions employment energy environment executive experience explanation Facebook flowchart food future gadgets games Giveaway Google government Guest Halloween health history holiday how-to humor illustration infection Infographic infographics InfoNewt innovation interactive interface internet interview iPad iphone jobs LinkedIN live logo map Marketing medical mind map mobile money movies music network news oil online periodic table personal Phone photo planets politics pollution population poster presentation presidential process real time recipes relative research safety scale schools science search SEO size social social media software space spending sports starship startup statistics subway sun survey taxes technology TED Television time timeline travel treemap twitter UK USA video visual Visualization war water wealth weather web Wikipedia wine words world YouTubeįrom BrilliantMaps, this is the Did Not Vote Election Map, showing the magnitude if all voting-eligible adults that did not actively vote in the 2016 Presidential election.
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