![]() This entry was posted in election, maps and tagged Clinton, election, politics, president, Trump, USA by worldmapper. Please contact me for further details and the terms of use. The content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig. Note: This post has been updated with the final results using the Popular Vote Tracker and the New York Times in January 2017. This means that Donald Trump will become the next president of the USA, officially taking over office from Barack Obama on January 20, 2017. ![]() In the electoral college Hillary Clinton received 228 electoral votes, while Donald Trump secured 290 of the electoral votes. Since the president is not directly elected, but by an electoral college of electors that the voters technically vote for, the presidential election is an indirect one and the outcome of the popular vote does not always reflect the outcome of the election. However, despite having received more votes from the electorate, Clinton is not the winner of this election. An analysis by the Economist showed that “80% of voters who have over one square mile (2.6 square km) of land to enjoy to themselves backed Mr Trump.” As also reflected in the geographic voting patterns in the cartogram, the more densely populated areas become (shown as the larger grid cells which are proportional to their total population), the more likely was Clinton’s success. The population-centric perspective of this map shows that Trump’s success has largely been in the more rural areas, while Clinton won more of the votes in the urban areas that stand out in the cartogram. The main cartogram is accompanied by a second cartogram showing the distribution of votes that went to neither of the two candidates, and a ‘conventional’ reference map that also shows the states of Alaska and Hawaii: The cartogram itself shows an equal-population projection (gridded population cartogram) where each grid cell in the map is resized according to the total number of people living there. Shown in diverging colours is each respective candidate who received the largest share of votes in each county. The following cartogram shows the distribution of votes for the two main candidates. Other candidates put together reached 7,804,213 votes (5.7%). Long gone are the days in which up to around 80% of the electorate went to the polls: This was last seen in the 19th century.Ħ2,979,636 votes (46.1%) were cast for Donald Trump, while Hillary Clinton received 65,844,610 votes (48.2%). But not quite the whole electorate went to the polls: Turnout was at a long-term low with about 55% of voting age citizen having cast their ballot in the 2016 presidential election. Other, than that, cool graphic.The electorate of the United States of America has come to a decision about who is to become their next president. Seven electors voted for someone other than their party’s candidate. Now, make your jokes that the red regions are filled with idiots, but it was the blue regions that our system was designed to protect us from. Trump won the Electoral College with 304 votes compared to 227 votes for Hillary Clinton. This is commonly referred to as Tyranny of the Masses. What if everyone decided that slavery should be legal again? Would that make it right? The very word democracy tells us that with its root from the Greek demos, which contrary to popular belief doesn't mean "the people" so much as it means "idiot." Which is to say that sometimes, the majority is wrong. This is important because it recognizes that not everything should be decided by a simple majority of the popular vote. 3, by replacing state appointment of senators with the popular vote (which by the way has had numerous negative unintended consequences, not the least of which is our national debt) the Electoral College and the duties of the Senate maintain the original governmental structure of our nation as a representative republic, not a democracy. ![]() And although the 17th Amendment superseded Article 1 Sec. ![]() One of the original reasons for having a bicameral house is that people vote through the House of Representatives and states or other smaller geographical based communities (analogous to land) votes through the Senate. That's great, except your whole premise "Land doesn't vote.
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