Slashgeo

Slashdot covers 2006 U.S. election maps mashups. Their summary: ""Search Engine Watch has an article on the launch this week of map-based search tools to follow the 2006 Congressional elections, from both Google Earth and the map-based real estate site HotPads.com. The Google Earth Blog notes the release of two election-oriented layers outlining the borders of the congressional districts and linking to Google News articles related to the different races. And HotPads is offering the 2006 Election Edition. From their blog: 'The 435 congressional districts are outlined on HotPads Maps, with red and blue designating the party affiliation of the districts' current Representatives. By clicking on the districts' "I" buttons..., users can view quick facts about the districts including the current Representatives and the candidates in November's contests. By clicking on the quick facts bubble, users can get more detailed information [from] Wikipedia articles with detailed information about the candidates and the close races.'""

Jesse writes "Episode 68 of A VerySpatial Podcast features an interview with Kenneth Martis, co-author of the new book "Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 1788-2004", about the book and general issues of Electoral Geography."

Konquest writes "The big news today, apart from Britney’s divorce, is the results of the US Midterms Elections that were held Tuesday. Election-time is also a time where geographical information, and by extension, maps. Election after election, media try to improve their way to communicate this information effectively. Let’s review the main maps found over the internet this morning."

The Data Libre blog runs a nice entry on Ontario's elections results: "From a data, information and news perspective democracy won out. The MMP issue lost out however as the public education component was near nil! Wonder who got the communication’s contract for that one! Yikes!"

We covered electoral maps quite a few times in the past. The official Google LatLong blog discuss the mapping of where U.S. congressional provisions (or earmarks) are directing funds and links to a USA Today article. The Map Room links to an interactive map of the results of the recent Swiss federal election and links to a new U.S.-oriented site named The Electoral Map. Below I copied some of the previous stories related to elections, including this one on worldwide electoral geography website.