An interesting thing to note is that this view is even more heavily dominated by the color red, for the same reasons. This map looks at the 20 presidential election results, county by county. Thus, when your eyes attempt to discern which color prevails, the comparison is more accurate and attempts to replicate the relative ratio of electoral votes for each side. That cartogram changed the size of the states so that large states with low population, and thus low electoral votes tended to shrink in size, while smaller states with moderate to larger populations tended to grow in size. On a normal election map, Red states dominate, especially because a number of larger, less populated states happen to vote Republican. The idea for that map was that by portraying a state as Red or Blue, your eye naturally attempts to determine which color has a greater share of the total. Previously, I created a map (cartogram) that showed the state by state electoral results from the Presidential Election by scaling the size of the states based on their electoral votes. This interactive map shows the election results by county and you can display the size of counties based on their land area or population size. The map has been updated to include the latest 2020 results and also adds the option to color the circles by the win margin rather than just looking at the winner.Ĭlick here to view a visualization that looks more explicitly at the correlation between population density and votes by county.

Us population density map by state