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. See examples of Election Reporting and Mapping NEW REPORT - Presidential Election Results Surveillance in the Democratic Republic of CongoInstantAtlas helps city councils present 2011 local election dataAs results from the May local elections in England are counted an analysed many councils have turned to InstantAtlas to help them explain the changes that have taken place. Presenting election data (showing which seats have been won and lost) in a visual format that is easy to understand is an important task for councils in their efforts to support local democracy. Example No. 1 - Nottinghamshire City Council Example No. 2 - Northern Ireland Assembly Election Results 2011 |
London Local Elections 2010, Greater London AuthorityScale: Regional (London, England) The Greater London Authority (GLA) is a strategic authority with a London-wide role to design a better future for the capital. It supports the work of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly in representing the interests of Londoners. They used InstantAtlas to deliver easy to use, highly-interactive atlases for the Greater London local elections in 2010 at ward level InstantAtlas provided a quick and easy, off-the-shelf tool for GLA to build interactive presentations of the results without using up valuable resources. “We managed to get the election results out within a couple days which really shows the strength of InstantAtlas because there was a lot of data involved. Being able to present the data in a geographical format in such detail really helped us – it was a quick solution to reporting the results.” Gareth Piggott, Senior Research and Statistical Analyst, Greater London Authority Intelligence unit Read the GLA Story - 'How data visualization is helping the Greater London Authority meet its objectives'.InstantAtlas video tutorial on how to present election results data in IA reports |
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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 |


