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AMERICA DIVIDES: The Multi-Party US Election of 2016

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Also, the other reason I always say I do these election night TLs is I usually do it right before a real election, and it's a good way to re-familiarise myself (and the readers) with the layout of the constituencies to help me keep track of the real election night.

Except, obviously, this time I decided to do a US election RIGHT BEFORE THEY CHANGE ALL THE DISTRICTS, so that made sense.
 
Thande said:
Now you can't just compare the primary votes, because the way the parties and states organise the primaries are different - open vs closed primary, caucus, etc. - which means the votes actually cast can be wildly different and/or not even recorded. But what they do consistently record is percentages. Therefore, what I did was to take the number of raw votes cast for Clinton or Trump on general election day 2016 in each district, and then split it into 2 or 3 groups based on the percentages cast in the primary.
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That's what I suspected was going on! Great work Thande. Shame there aren't really any other elections this model would work for - 1976 comes to mind but I imagined the data would be a little harder to find.
 
This is almost certainly me talking out my own arse, but I think you can connect the three "An Election Night's Dream" TLs' horror-humor ratios together with their framing devices quite neatly:
  • Partying Lite It's 1999 was a nightmare of William Hague's, created by a mysterious being that was feeding on despair. Just like a nightmare, it fluctuated between surreal horror and surreal humour, and ended on a more humourous note to provide Hauge with the necessary hope that he might win in 2001--a hope that was obviously dashed.
  • The Kippery Slope was a dream of Nigel Farage's, brought on by brain damage from a falling TV and/or a mysterious bookie. Hence the surreal horror bits slowly rose to the surface as his condition improved, his mind rejecting the false reality with its magical pint-glass and trying to wake itself with the wrongness of the situation.
  • AMERICA DIVIDES is just a normal, non-trauma-induced, non-SOMETHING-directed, dream Joe Biden had thanks to a hot afternoon (I think. Maybe.) As such, there was basically no horror this time--just light-hearted gags all the way through. Which, considering the state of American politics, is probably for the best.
A cracking TL, well-written and very well-mapped (I'm getting nauseous just looking at that map of California). Nice one.
 
BClick said:
That's what I suspected was going on! Great work Thande. Shame there aren't really any other elections this model would work for - 1976 comes to mind but I imagined the data would be a little harder to find.
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Yeah, the primary system wasn't quite as ironed out on either side. I think it'd be very possible to do stuff with state-level primaries, though! Just takes some research to put people in various camps (and maybe correct for local favoritism if that's needed).

Very good work on this, @Thande! Some states are awkward, but that's the problem with using primaries.
 
Nyvis said:
It's really a shame that the differed schedule primaries mean that most of them end up cut short when a winner emerges and we don't get that sweet sweet data.
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As I always complain about, what really bites my hat is that California usually comes quite late on in the process so the votes of more than 1/10th of the country usually don't matter in any way.
 
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    • Anyway, now this has finished I'll sporadically post some additional maps. Firstly, these ones are ones that show the number of seats won by the parties in each district to give a rough idea of party strength. I may do pure percentage maps as well at some point, but that'll probably need a new scale.

    Firstly, the Liberals.

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    • Thande said:
    Anyway, now this has finished I'll sporadically post some additional maps. Firstly, these ones are ones that show the number of seats won by the parties in each district to give a rough idea of party strength. I may do pure percentage maps as well at some point, but that'll probably need a new scale.

    Firstly, the Liberals.

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    The Solid South is back again.
     
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