Both Parties Got More Votes This Year: That’s a Challenge for Visualizing Results
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4 min readNov 24, 2020
Often, visualizations about election data focus on the margin of victory (the gap between a winner and loser) and share (what percent of the electorate a candidate captured).
But 2020 was a very high turnout election. And such elections create some quirks in how we visualize election results.