Who are the voters and where are they? Using spatial statistics to analyse voting patterns in the parliamentary elections of the Czech Republic

The mapping of election results has long been a popular topic among cartographers, journalists, data scientists and infographic authors. However, their work usually concludes with simple visualizations of a single election, and in most cases only the winning party is represented. Can we tell the sto...

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Published inJournal of maps Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 33 - 38
Main Authors Lysek, Jakub, Pánek, Jiří, Lebeda, Tomáš
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis 01.01.2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Cartography
Coalition governments
Direct democracy
Election results
Elections
geopolitical mapping
left
Parliamentary elections
Political parties
Political science
Populism
Scientists
Social Democrats
Spatial analysis
Voter behavior
Voters
Voting
voting decline
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Summary:The mapping of election results has long been a popular topic among cartographers, journalists, data scientists and infographic authors. However, their work usually concludes with simple visualizations of a single election, and in most cases only the winning party is represented. Can we tell the story of a political party over two decades via maps? What were the reasons for the rise and fall of such party; in our case the Czech Social Democrats? Moreover, how were the changes in voting patterns spatially distributed and manifested? With our paper, we explore voting patterns as well as the voting history of specific parties related to the fate of Social Democrats in the Czech Republic in several national elections from 2006 to 2017. We would like to invite other political scientists to explore the election results in their countries, not just over time, but also in space, and ideally via maps.
ISSN:1744-5647
1744-5647
DOI:10.1080/17445647.2020.1819901