Minnesota Presidential Election Results – 2012 vs 2016 – Shaded Maps

After posting maps of which party won each precinct in Minnesota for 2012 and 2016, I received several requests for maps shaded to reflect how big each party won each precinct. So here they are!

As expected, the maps do not show the same stark picture as the absolute maps…and as it has been pointed out elsewhere, perhaps we’re not quite as divided as we think. Or, at least, the divisions aren’t quite as stark.

The darker the blue or red, the higher the percentage of votes. Purple indicates a tie.

MN Presidential Election Maps

Twin Cities Presidential Election Maps

If you want to explore the comparison results, I created a web mapping application:

Comparison Web Map

Minnesota Presidential Election Results – 2012 vs 2016

I started out just wanting to map the election results by voting precinct…just to see if the urban vs rural hypothesis played out in Minnesota. Then I got to thinking…how did it play out in 2012? And why not compare them, right?

Not taking anything into account besides geography, the urban (Democrat) vs rural (Republican) definitely played out in 2016…not so much back in 2012:

MN Presidential Election Maps 2012/2016

 

Interestingly, it was even more apparent in the Twin Cities Metro area — in 2012 there were some rural, some suburban parts of the area that voted Republican…not so much in 2016. There was almost a contraction of the blue precincts:

Twin Cities Presidential Election Maps 2012/2016

 

If you want to explore the comparison results, I created a web mapping application:

Comparison Web Map

Just note — it’s a bit rough…and in order to make the data play nice (so you can click on any precinct and see the results), it loads a bit slowly…

Enjoy!

 

UPDATE: I’ve had several requests for maps shaded telative to the percentage of the vote that was Democrat, Republican, etc. — those maps are in the works…

UMN Buildings – Named for Men/Women

While attending the Big Ten Academic Alliance Digital Humanities Summit back in April, I was made aware of this very cool set of maps from the University of Iowa Libraries (created for Women’s History Month) highlighting buildings on their campus named for men/women (and the disparity between those numbers).

Inspired by the maps they made, I took a shapefile of the buildings on the UMN campus (from our Campus History web app), did quite a bit of research/googling and made my own version for the University of Minnesota…

umn-buildingnames