[OSGeo Africa] Election maps

[Adi Eyal]

Thanks Tim

Yup - would you believe that the IEC publishes all their data
in gobsmacking detail? Have a look here: http://www.elections.org.za.
You'll find the results for all the elections that have taken place over
the past two decades or so, down to the voting station. I got the
shapefiles from www.demarcation.gov.za.

Adi

On 23 March 2013 20:35, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi Adi
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Adi Eyal <adi at burgercom.co.za> wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I've been fiddling around the election data from the last municipal
> > elections and I've put together a graphic showing which wards were
> contested
> > and which are strongholds. I defined contested as there being a less than
> > 10% difference in vote counts between the first and second place winners.
> >
> > I'm by no means a cartographer and this is one of my first projects so I
> was
> > hoping for comments about how one might improve the maps. I guess the one
> > problem is that even though you know that a ward is contested, you don't
> > know by how much. Also (and i'm not sure this is important) you don't
> know
> > from the map what the individual wards are - only the municipality they
> are
> > in. Finally, I don't know where most of these municipalities are
> situated so
> > perhaps so sort of contextual map showing them in relation to the rest of
> > the country might be useful. Of course all of these things are possible
> but
> > might not be easy to achieve while still maintaining an uncluttered
> design.
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated. The small version of the image can be
> found
> > here: http://za.okfn.org/2013/03/23/battle-for-local-municipalities/.
> The
> > complete poster is also available as pdf linked to on the site.
> >
> > Hopefully this sort of question is not frowned upon in this forum (if it
> > helps, everything here was produced with open source tools :)).
> >
>
> Great project!
>
> Is the source data you used available somewhere publicly? If so can
> you provide a link to it?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
> > Thanks
> > Adi
> >
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Adi Eyal
Data Specialist
phone: +27 78 014 2469
skype: adieyalcas
linkedin: http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal
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