2024 US Presidential Election Eclipse

The 2024 US Presidential Election Eclipse infographic. A cool way to use a Dorling cartogram. You still have the general shape of the US, but sizing is representative of the number of total votes casts. Then the additional use of a “solar eclipse” look to visualize the votes for the winning party. Created by Kenneth Field with ArcGIS. Make sure to check out the hi-rez copy.

This map portrays the US states as a Dorling cartogram with each state shown as a circular symbol proportional to the total votes cast. It illustrates not only the winner in each state, but also a number of additional metrics using moonpie symbols that show the percentage obscuration caused by the winning party (akin to a solar eclipse). Whether they won or lost, Democrats are on the left of the symbols and Republicans on the right.

Professionally, I’m fascinated with election maps. As a designer and critic in the data visualization community, I don’t think anyone has really gotten this design challenge right…yet.

I really like this design because it shows the impact of both party’s votes in each state. Too many of the usual designs only show the winning party, but the Dorling design does a good job of showing both the winning and losing party votes in each state. I also appreciate the subtle left/right placement of the party votes in each state.

Found on Bluesky. Thanks to Steve Wexler for sharing!