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/