Map Your State Senator

The Senate Address Geo-coding Engine (SAGE) is a Google Maps based application and API that is designed to provide voters with easy access to information about New York State districts and representatives.

Enter an address into the District Lookup and you can view the state district that the address falls within and discover the State Senator for the district. The senator who represents the

Support François Hollande on Google Maps

The official website, TousHollande, of François Hollande, the Socialist nomination for the French presidential elections, is using Google Maps on its homepage to show user submitted messages of support.

Supporters of Hollande can add their support to the map by filling in a short form (or use Facebook Connect to sign-in) and see their own messages appear on the map. The map itself animates through the support messages already added to the map.

The map does an impressive job in creating the image of a candidate with nationwide support. It is also a very effective method for building a database of enthusiastic supporters. To add your support to the map you have to agree that you support the candidacy of Francois Hollande and wish to be informed about news of the campaign.

It would be very interesting to know whether this proves a more effective way of building a mailing list of supporters than the more traditional methods used in previous campaigns.

Map of the Florida Primary Results

The Google Elections hub is now beginning to show the results of the Florida Primary (with Romney looking to have taken an early lead). The Google Map automatically updates as results around the state are announced.

Each county on the map will become shaded, as the votes come in, to show which candidate won the most votes. If you mouse-over the highlighted counties it is possible to view the votes cast for each candidate in the county.

Gerrymandering Shown with Google Maps

The New York World has produced an excellent Google Maps based visualisation of the Proposed New York Senate Districts.

This visualisation of the proposed rezoning works brilliantly in map form, not only because of the obvious geographic nature of creating new senate districts but because the map perfectly illustrates the disparity in the population sizes between upstate and downstate proposed districts.

The large red area to the north on the map shows that these proposed districts will each have a smaller population than the blue districts to the south of the map in New York City. In effect New York City voters will count for less than their up-state neighbors.

As The New York World states this "regional discrepancy is crucial to Republicans' efforts to preserve their narrow control of the Senate".

Ontario Election Results on Google Maps

Global News has created a series of Google Maps to visualise the 2011 Ontario election results.

Ontario Election Maps shows the results of 24,094 polls in six maps: plurality winner by poll, voter turnout and the four parties' results looked at in isolation. Each map shows a heat map of the results and you can click on individual electoral wards to view the results at that location.

The map can be searched by address or postal codes. A number of links, above the map, will take you to 14 regional views.

South Carolina Primary Results Mapped

The Google Elections hub is now featuring a Google Map of the South Carolina Primary Results. The map shows the number of votes cast for each of the Republican candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in each of the South Carolina counties.

Each county on the map is shaded to show which candidate won overall in the area. If you mouse-over a county it is possible to view the votes cast for each candidate.

Maps of SOPA & PIPA Supporting Senators

Spatial Situation has created two maps to show congressional support (and opposition) for H.R. 3261 (SOPA) and S. 968 (PIPA).

The Map of Congressional Support for PIPA shows which senators are known to support and which senators oppose PIPA. The Map of Congressional Support for SOPA shows known congressional supporters and opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

Both maps also include a pop-up form to contact your congressman about the two acts.

UK Boundary Changes on Google Maps

In the UK the Boundary Commissions for England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have published their recommendations for proposed changes to constituency boundaries.

The Guardian has created this Google Maps based visualisation to show the proposed new constituency boundaries and also a crude analysis of how the 2010 UK election results would have played out under the proposed changes.

The visualisation displays two synched Google Maps, the 2010 election results with the new boundaries are on the left map and the 2010 results with the existing boundaries are on the right.

Iowa Caucus Results on Google Maps

The Google Elections hub is now featuring a Google Map of the Iowa Caucus Results. The map shows the number of votes cast for each of the Republican candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in each of the Iowa counties.

Each county on the map is shaded to show which candidate won overall in the area. If you mouse-over a county it is possible to view the votes cast for each candidate.

Whilst Romney and Santorum both picked a similar percentage of the votes in the state the map seems to show that Santorum's support is less geographically concentrated than Romney's.

The 2012 US Elections on Google Maps

The 2012 US Elections are still eleven months away but they are already hard to avoid. With so much political information, opinion and news to filter and digest Google has decided to launch an elections hub, Google Elections, to help citizens sift through the noise.

Part of the Google Elections hub is On the Ground, a Google Map of news stories and videos from the campaign trail. Currently the map is centred on Iowa with links to reports and videos from the Iowa Caucuses.

Via: Google Blog

Find Your Senator with Google Maps

Govtrack.us are using Google Maps to help voters Find a Representative or Senator.

Using the map it is possible to find a current or past Member of Congress. If you click on a state on the map you can find out who the current senators for the state are. You can then click on a senator to add them to your customized tracked events page on govtrack.us. It is also possible to search for a representative by name, zip postal code or street address.

Govtrack.us have also made available the state shape files for the map, which are available in KML or WMS map layer form.

The Argentinian Elections on Google Maps

Hacks / Hackers Buenos Aires has used Google Maps and Fusion Tables to create a series of maps to explore the results in the recent Argentinian Presidential and Legislative elections.

Elecciones 2011 examines the results, trends and the socio-demographic context of the 2011 elections in Argentina. The 'Resumen General' map shows the results for each presidential candidate in each electoral ward.

Other maps provide a choropleth view for the number of votes cast for each presidential candidate in each ward and allow you to examine the socio-demographic make up of each electoral ward.

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Talk to the Mayor with Google Maps

KQED News have created a 2011 San Francisco Mayor's Race Google Map.

KQED sent a team of reporters to five districts in San Francisco and asked voters what they want the next mayor to fix in their neighborhoods. They then mapped the results. KQED say the map provides a way "to compare communities and get a pretty good idea of some key issues the next mayor will have to tackle".

The map itself includes a pretty cool comment and scrolling feature. If you mouse-over the respondent's comments at the bottom of the page then the map will scroll to the correct location and show a preview picture of the interviewee. Even as you scroll down the page, to read the lower comments, the map remains in the same position.

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Berlin Elections on Google Maps

The Beliner Morgenpost has used Fusion Tables to create this nice Berlin Elections Map. The election was held on September 18th to elect members to the Abgeordnetenhaus. All 141 seats were up for election.

The map allows you to click on any of the political parties and view the constituencies where their candidates won. It is also possible to search the map by address or by district to view local results.

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New Danish Parliament on Google Maps

Microformats.dk has created a simple visualisation of the new members of the Danish parliament following the general election on the 15th September.

Borgen 2011 uses the Google Maps API with an image of the country's members of parliament. Using the CASA Image Cutter the photograph was turned into map tiles and mapped with the Google Maps API.

Users can now zoom in on the image and view individual MP's. The visualisation could be made even more interactive by adding event listeners to the map, so that when a user clicked on an individual MP's image an information window opened with biographical details.

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Swiss Parlament Revealed with Google Maps

Google Maps doesn't play a huge part in this visualisation of the Swiss Parlament but it is hugely impressive.

The visualisation reveals the interests of the country's members of parliament. If you click on an MP's seat in the visualisation a political profile is displayed listing all the MP's political affiliations, mandates and business interests.

If you then select one of the business interests, pressure groups etc listed you can view further details about the organisation, including a Google Map of its Swiss headquarters.

Parlament Explorer

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Spanish Election Results on Google Maps

El Microscopio del Voto

Vizzuality have a history of producing some of the most interesting and beautiful Google Maps applications. Their latest effort for the Spanish broadcaster RTVE is up their with the best of them.

The map presents the 2011 Spanish electoral results in the context of historical electoral results and a vast range of demographic indicators. Using the map you can view electoral results since 1987 and discover how the electoral and socio-economic landscape of Spain has evolved over the last few decades.

The map allows you to visualise 15 datasets at 3 different administrative levels over more than 20 years. All the data is visualised on the map using colour coded custom tiles and the result is a great looking map that presents a huge amount of data via a user friendly interface.

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Google Maps, Fusion Tables & Elections

Canada & UK Post-Elections Round-up

Patrick Cain this week has spotted some post-election Google Maps from the Vancouver Sun and The Guardian.

In Canada the Vancouver Post's map looks at the loss of seats by the federal Liberal party in British Columbia, whilst The Guardian maps the results of the British referendum on the Alternative Voting system.

The Guardian's map shows how there was very little support for the Alternative Voting system outside of a few London boroughs, the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge and central Glasgow and Edinburgh.

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The Alternative Voting Map

The Telegraph AV Map

The UK yesterday held a referendum on whether to change the way it votes for government to the alternative voting (AV) system. The Telegraph newspaper has created a Google Map to show what the 2010 UK general election might have looked like if it had been held under AV.

The Telegraph have used the results of a survey asking voters how they would rank the parties in order of preference if a new AV electoral system was introduced. They have then used this data to try and predict how the 2010 UK general election might have panned out under the alternative voting system.

The map lets you view the real results of the 2010 election and the adjusted results.

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The Singapore Election on Google Maps

Singapore Electoral Map 2011

Singapore will be holding parliamentary elections on 7th May.

One quirk of the Singapore electoral system is that constituency boundaries are changed for each election. This can be quite confusing for voters so Singapore Maps has created this Google Map to help voters discover which constituency they are in.

Users can enter an address or postcode to find out their constituency. The constituency boundaries are also clearly displayed on the map. If you click on the map you can also find out which candidates are standing in each constituency for both political parties.

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