ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

选举结果的绘制长期以来一直是制图师，新闻工作者，数据科学家和信息图表作者中的热门话题。但是，他们的工作通常以单个选举的简单可视化结束，并且在大多数情况下，仅代表获胜方。我们能否通过地图讲述一个政党过去二十年的故事？这种政党兴衰的原因是什么？在我们的情况下是捷克社会民主党？此外，投票方式的变化如何在空间上分布和体现？通过我们的论文，我们探索了2006年至2017年几次全国大选中与捷克共和国社会民主党命运有关的特定政党的投票模式和投票历史。我们想邀请其他政治学家探讨选举结果在他们的国家，