Election mapping and reporting: Background
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InstantAtlas dynamic reports are ideal for presenting election results and creating political and social atlases. The key feature of the product is its ability to create reports and maps at any geographic scale or coverage. This allows local, regional, national or international organisations to deliver high quality, richly interactive outputs. InstantAtlas is being used in this area for two purposes:-
The International Centre for Excellence in Local eDemocracy (ICELE) has recognised InstantAtlas in its category Election Results Publication Systems. |
London Mayoral Elections, Greater London Authority(click on image to view) Scale: Regional (London, England) Purpose: The Data Management and Analysis Group (DMAG) provide data management and analysis services to the Greater London Authority (GLA). They are a team of statisticians and researchers with a range of professional and technical skills in the fields of statistics, demography, geographic information and data presentation. They used InstantAtlas to deliver easy to use, highly-interactive atlases for the high-profile elections of the London Mayor and Assembly. The election results were released 2nd May 2008 and published on the GLA web site the following morning. InstantAtlas provided a quick and easy, off-the-shelf tool for the DMAG to build interactive presentations of the results without using up valuable resources. "We had challenging timescales to develop the election results reports. We were able to create, customise and brand them in a few days so they were ready and waiting for the results as they came in,” said Alan Lewis, Senior Analyst within DMAG. “Given the delay in the results beingannounced due to consideration of second preference votes, it was a late night for us but the London Mayor atlas was live the following morning and we are very pleased with results". Janet Worth, Executive Director Corporate Services, Greater London Authority, said: "I think the presentation of the 2008 Mayoral and Assembly election results using these interactive web pages looks fantastic. They really help to communicate the data in an interesting and exciting manner.” |
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Keywords of Article and Resource Links | election-map, map-political,presidential-election-map, electoral-map, election-mapping-software, electoral-votes-map, election-council, election-statistics, voter-demographics, voter statistics |

