Political Map Thread I

[spanishspy]

This thread is dedicated to posting and discussing political map depicting elections.

The electoral map for the 2016 American Presidential Election in my timeline Things That Happen.

[lordroel]

Not sure if this is the right place but looking at this map you see how many parties some European countries have in their parliaments compared to only 2 in the United states.

[stevep]

Lordroel

Interesting and surprising how diverse some areas seem to be. Of course in Britain the nature of the electoral system means that its very difficult to get a party from 3rd place into power. [Even if Clegg hadn't made such a mess of the 'alliance' with the Tories' the LibDems would have struggled in the 2015 election, although they might have been better placed to retain 3rd place in the country as a whole. Ditto with the fact that the system has prevented UKIP getting Parliamentary representation anywhere approaching their electoral support. [Although I would argue that support is in large part because the ruling elites, partly because the electoral system makes them so secure, has viewed the electors with pretty much unveiled contempt].

What's with the bracketed values for Britain 11(5) and Denmark 9 (13) please?

I nearly didn't notice the micro-states with 4 parties each in Lichtenstein and Andorra, 3 in Monaco and 11 in San Marino. Surprising the latter, being so small, has so many parties present in their governing bodies.

Suppose there is also an argument for a number of other small 'states' being mentioned. For instance for Britain the Channel Is, Isle of Man and Gibraltar all have their own legislature but don't have representation in the British Parliament. Not sure how many other such statelets would be about in Europe?

[spanishspy]

The two party color is wonderfully snarky.

[lordroel]

Jan 13, 2017 1:19:56 GMT spanishspy said:

The two party color is wonderfully snarky.

This map looks cool.

[spanishspy]

Jan 13, 2017 9:44:15 GMT lordroel said:

Jan 13, 2017 1:19:56 GMT spanishspy said:

The two party color is wonderfully snarky.

This map looks cool.

Goes to show how red being Republican and blue being Democratic are very recent things. 

[lordroel]

Jan 15, 2017 3:56:21 GMT spanishspy said:

Jan 13, 2017 9:44:15 GMT lordroel said:

This map looks cool.

Goes to show how red being Republican and blue being Democratic are very recent things. 

Am trying to search for a Political Map of the United States in which more than 2 parties take part, but that means you will have to go way back i guess.

[stevep]

Jan 15, 2017 3:58:27 GMT lordroel said:

Jan 15, 2017 3:56:21 GMT spanishspy said:

Goes to show how red being Republican and blue being Democratic are very recent things. 

Am trying to search for a Political Map of the United States in which more than 2 parties take part, but that means you will have to go way back i guess.

  Well there was the case in the 1960's when there was a significant opposition to the two parties that I'm aware of was George Wallace and the American Independent Party in 1968, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace#1968_third-party_presidential_run

  You had 3rd party candidates in most elections and IIRC was it Anderson in 1980 who seemed to have the best policies but got nowhere and Nader in 2000 who may have won the election for Bush by taking enough votes from Gore but I don't think either actually took any states.

[lordroel]

I like these kind of maps from way back (map link which you can enlarge)

[spanishspy]

Jan 15, 2017 12:40:05 GMT stevep said:

Jan 15, 2017 3:58:27 GMT lordroel said:

Am trying to search for a Political Map of the United States in which more than 2 parties take part, but that means you will have to go way back i guess.

  Well there was the case in the 1960's when there was a significant opposition to the two parties that I'm aware of was George Wallace and the American Independent Party in 1968, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace#1968_third-party_presidential_run

  You had 3rd party candidates in most elections and IIRC was it Anderson in 1980 who seemed to have the best policies but got nowhere and Nader in 2000 who may have won the election for Bush by taking enough votes from Gore but I don't think either actually took any states.

There was them - there was also Ross Perot in the nineties who won several counties. You also had the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, and Strom Thurmond. 

[lordroel]

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