Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results (Compendium of Election Result Maps

Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan ^ | November 12, 2004 | Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman

[JerseyHighlander]

For all of your Election 2004 needs. Hopefully this can cut down the vanity posts asking for election result maps.

[JerseyHighlander]

I can't believe I spelled compendium wrong. Could I get a clean up on aisle 1279328?

[PhotoFixer3]

dahhhh.....

[Reeses]

Population data were taken from the 2000 US Census.

Why use 2000 data for population distribution numbers? The 2004 election's high turn-out is in effect a more accurate census.

[GSlob]

Isn't premeditated topological distortion of the nation's map a punishable offense, akin to mutilation of a passport?

[RockinRight]

Interesting.

What this fails to point out is that the "real" America voted for Bush. The elitists and "Europeized" America voted for Kerry.

[MisterRepublican]

The cartograms resemble the liberal view of reality, distorted.

[Rastus]

I prefer this to the cartograms:

[Paladin2]

W0W, Long Island gets REALLY fat based on population. Maybe it should be its own state.

[Admin Moderator]

Good post, but please remember to use the published heading. Thanks.

[Dan from Michigan]

Should have made the cutoff 60%, not 70%.

There's no way Wayne(69.5%, but they gave it blue), Livingston(Red), Allegan(red), Washtenaw(Blue), or Genesee(blue) counties are "purple"

[AM2000]

Interesting.

This map lays to rest the myth that the Republican party's base is in the old South.

It would be more accurate to say that the 'base' lies in the middle section - from Texas to about Nebraska, in addition to parts of the Rocky Mountain states.

[Wonder Warthog]

You left out the BEST representation---the "3-D" map by county. It makes the necessary census-related points FAR BETTER than the cartogram distortions.

[M-cubed]

Now that the election is over and "We the people" have spoken.....Can we see the all red map???...regular or blowfish pattern is fine with me as long as its ALL red!

[docbnj]

The undistorted maps are more informative, because they show that Kerry mostly won urban counties, and areas with large Black populations; he also won some areas with high Méxican and American Indian populations.

The exception would be New England, but even there it is the urban counties. Most of the countryside in PA went for Bush, with only areas around Pittsburgh, Erie, Wilkes-Barre, and Philadelphia going for Kerry. Without Philadelphia, PA would ahve been a landslide for Bush.

As in 2000, the high-crime areas went for the Democrats. I can see why they think that allowing felons to vote is a good idea: they expect the felons to be Democrats, and they are mostly correct for once on that score.

[bigbob]

This is a very interesting map. Can anyone offer a theory for the Kerry vote concentration roughly along the Mississippi River valley?

[mdittmar]

ahh,looks like a turkey.

oops sorry,thought this was one of those rorschach things.

[Arkinsaw]

This is a very interesting map. Can anyone offer a theory for the Kerry vote concentration roughly along the Mississippi River valley?

Mississippi Delta has a large minority population.

[Tench_Coxe]

Well, if helps shut the libs up by making their areas look larger, I'm all for it.

[BushCountry]