Berlin's European Elections Map

Berliner Morgenpost's map of the European election results inward Berlin

Yesterday I started writing a round-up of European election maps created yesteryear newspapers across Europe. However I was too hence disappointed alongside the full general lineament of the maps created that I speedily scrapped the post.

The i map that I was impressed alongside was yesteryear the Berliner Morgenpost. Europawahl 2014 Alle Stimmen inward den 529 Berliner Wahlkiezen is a map showing the results of the European elections inward each of Berlin's 529 election districts.

Like the Berliner Morgenpost's map of the German National Election the results inward the European elections present that at that topographic point is withal a clear dividing work betwixt voters inward the sometime eastern too western blocks inward Berlin


Berliner Morgenpost's map of the German linguistic communication national election results inward Berlin

Almost 25 years afterward the collapse of the Berlin Wall the Berliner Morgenpost map reveals a political wall withal exists betwixt East too West Berlin too that this  political wall runs close just along the work of the sometime Berlin Wall. To the due east the Left Party emerged triumphant, piece inward the westward the CDU too the SPD were the political winners.

The Berliner Morgenpost's European Elections Map is itself a actually good designed visualization of the Berlin election results. The map provides a unproblematic visualization of the overall winners inward each electoral district inward Berlin yesteryear shading each district alongside the color of the winning party. If y'all click on an electoral district on the map y'all tin stance a breakdown of the results for each political party too y'all tin likewise compare the 2014 results alongside the votes sort inward the district inward the 2009 European Elections.

The map likewise uses an effective polygon knockout final result to cover all of the map except for Berlin. If y'all desire to recreate this final result alongside Google Maps y'all tin purpose Vasile Cotovanu's polygon masking wizard Geomask. Using Geomask it is possible to practise a doughnut type polygon which alone shows the map through the hole inward the doughnut polygon. The final result of using Geomask is to highlight the relevant expanse on the map too mask the residual of the map.

Another effective blueprint chemical ingredient of the map is that when y'all click on an electoral district on the map a work is drawn from the district to the results inward the map sidebar. It appears that the Berliner Morgenpost had discovered a keen method for drawing a polyline from the map to a static chemical ingredient exterior the map.