Comparion of US Election maps

We’ve been having a look at the way different news websites have been displaying their election results. It’s fair to nearly everyone has been using maps to depict the state-by-state results.

In almost all cases, Macromedia Flash has been chosen as the preferred presentation technology.

Here are the links to compare, starting with BBC News’ offering (obviously!).

BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/americas/04/vote_usa/map/html/default.stm

[flash]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/americas/04/vote_usa/html/898.stm

[nice html alternative]

Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/electionresults

NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2004_ELECTIONRESULTS_GRAPHIC/index.html

CNN

http://us.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/

[country wide]

http://us.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/TX/P/00/index.html

[nice intrastate breakdown]

ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/Elections2004/president.html

MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553/

FOX News

http://www.foxnews.com/youdecide2004/

CBS News

http://election.cbsnews.com/election2004/

USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/front.htm

El Pais (Spanish-based newspaper, well regarded for it’s infographics)

http://www.elpais.es/comunes/2004/elecciones_eeuu/multimedia.html

[Check the pictorial links in the "Gráficos" section at the top. When the Flash loads click "Pulse para continuar" to continue...]

Electrol-Vote – a respected independent source, apparently

http://electoral-vote.com/