Scottish Plebiscite Results Maps

There are quite a few maps around today showing the results of the Scottish Referendum. Most of the maps, such every bit these maps past times City A.M. in addition to CTV News, decided to demo the results past times but shading electoral regions using 2 unlike colors, to betoken areas where voters voted 'Yes' in addition to where voters voted 'No'.

This approach plant good inwards showing the overall vote inwards each electoral region. However because in that place is a broad variation inwards the give away of voters inwards each portion this approach fails to demo the size of the voting population inwards each region. In fact this approach could genuinely live on quite misleading.

For representative inwards the map pictured above, the 'Yes' vote inwards Glasgow looks fairly pocket-sized compared to the 'No' vote inwards the Scottish Border but because the Scottish Borders is a far bigger geographical area. In fact withal Glasgow has 486,219 registered voters, compared to the 95,533 voters inwards the Scottish Borders.


As it turns out the huge numbers of regions voting 'No' compared to the really few regions voting 'Yes' way that this approach doesn't genuinely distort the overall picture. If the vote had been closer withal this approach could bring been quite misleading.

The solely map which I bring seen which attempts to describe organization human relationship for the give away of voters inwards each portion was Oliver O'Brien's Scottish Referendum Data Map. The Scottish Referendum Data Map uses unlike sized circular markers to stand upwards for the registered voting population inwards each electoral region.

The Scottish Referendum Data Map likewise attempts to demo the percent differences inwards the vote variety inwards each electoral portion past times using a color scale ranging from brilliant reddish for a high percent of no votes to brilliant bluish for a high percent of bluish votes.


BBC Scotland has mapped what people bring been proverb nearly Scottish Independence around the world. Using the Google Maps API the BBC has mapped Twitter messages containing the hashtag #'indyref'. The Tweets were sent betwixt the opening of the polls at vii am on xviii September, in addition to the annunciation of the determination this morning.

Using the BBC's Tweetmap y'all tin run into when in addition to where people tweeted around the world. You tin fifty-fifty click on the map makers to run into what people had to say.