(This article was originally published at Blog about Stats, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)
18 October 2015
On October 18, 2015, Swiss voters elect a new Parliament for the next four years.
Source: https://www.bk.admin.ch/
More about Swiss elections here
For the National Council (200 members), 3,802 candidates and more than 22 political parties take part.
And the winners are …
The polling stations closed at 12 AM. The results arrive canton by canton and are presented in an interactive visualisation – minute by minute.
Results as of 5 PM
By clicking one of the symbols, the details for a canton appear.
The results are updated in a database, and a script generates a visualisation on the spot. An easy way to follow the elections!
It’s the Statistical Atlas of the Federal Statistical Office that enables this presentation. And it’s no longer Adobe Flash needed to do it ;-).
Filed under: 01 New on the Web, 031 Data visualization, 036 Databases, 071 Hint, Switzerland
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