Electoral geography
From mapping votes to representing power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5697244 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Forest (0000-0002-4831-9403, Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12352 |
| OpenAlex | W2767038693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 107 |
In some ways, electoral geography has never been more popular. From the detailed, online maps of the Brexit vote to discussions of the electoral college versus the popular vote in the 2016 Trump-Clinton U.S. presidential contest, the relationships among geography, voting, and political power have seldom been more visible. The popularity of electoral geography in social and news media, however, does not necessarily reflect its presence in scholarly discussions, and indeed, in some ways, the former has replaced the latter. Digital technology and the burgeoning availability of electronic data mean that it is easier than ever to create maps of votes, often in near real time. Yet the academic field of electoral geography encompasses more than just mapping votes, including the study of election campaigns, political parties, electoral systems, and gerrymandering. The 3 major approaches are the geography of voting (mapping and visualizing votes), geographic influences on voting (the effect of place on political preferences and behavior), and the geography of representation (the analysis of electoral systems). Indeed, the structure of the electoral system, including gerrymandering, is often the key to understanding how political and racial/ethnic minorities can (or cannot) wield power and influence. This article examines each approach after a brief review of the historical origins of the subfield
CONTEST · Democracy · Electoral geography · First-past-the-post voting · Geography · Gerrymandering · Political economy · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Sociology · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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The Humid Republic in the Age of Trump
Geographic Factors of Voting in Russian Regions
Contiguity, constituencies, and the political representation of minorities
The surge of the small donorate in U.S. elections
Reckoning with the digital turn in electoral geography
A study on geographical context and voting preferences
Improving the Explanation of Electoral Behavior Through a Combination of Historical and Local Context – The Case of the AfD’s Results at the Federal Election in Germany in 2017
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Who are the voters and where are they? Using spatial statistics to analyse voting patterns in the parliamentary elections of the Czech Republic
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The People and The Nation
The geography of political parties
Virtual Forum Introduction
Electoral Geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina – is there anything beyond the ethnic rule
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Elbridge Gerry's Salamander
The Handbook of Electoral System Choice
Place and Politics in Modern Italy
Mapping election results in proportional electoral systems
Russia's Electoral Geography
Shades of Orange
Redrawing the Political Map of Russia
Mapping the Demos
World atlas of elections; Voting patterns in 39 democracies
Cartography
The Myth of Non-Partisan Cartography
Right-wing Radical Populism in City and Suburbs
The Suburbanisation of Political Representation in a Context of Proportional Representation
Electoral Change and Reapportionment Prescriptive Ideals and Reality
Consolidating South Africa’s New Democracy
The Organic or the Arithmetic
Sectionalism in American Politics, 1774-1787
Mapping the Red Threat
The within-district distribution of party candidates
The Cartographic State
City–suburban electoral polarization in Great Britain, 1950–2001
Labour electoral landslides and the changing efficiency of voting distributions
Composition and context
Electoral redistricting and minority political representation in Canada and the United States
The boundaries of suburban discontent? Urban definitions and neighbourhood political effects
A Methodological Consideration of Some Geographic Aspects of the Newfoundland Referendum on Confederation With Canada, 1948
The effects of local campaign spending on the geography of the flow‐of‐the‐vote at the 1991 New South Wales state election
The U.S. Electoral College and Spatial Biases in Voter Power
The Geography of the Nazi Vote
People Who Talk Together Vote Together’
A Politics of Failure
The Causes of City-Suburban Political Polarization? A Canadian Case Study
Mapping Democracy
Geographies of State Power, Protest, and Women's Political Identity Formation in Michoacán, Mexico
Electoral behaviour behind the gates
The Partisan Impacts of Non‐Partisan Redistricting
The Function and Methods of Electoral Geography
Putting Voters in their Place
Representation and local democracy
Anomalies in Red and Blue II
Voting Habits in the United States
Imagined communities
For Whom the Poll Airs
Determinants of Geographical Representation on Candidate Lists in Flexible-List Systems
Context, Conversation and Conviction
Local Economic Contexts and Changing Party Allegiances at the 1992 British General Election
The Geographic Distribution of Political Preferences
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The geography of the 1990 Hungarian parliamentary elections
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Whose South is it anyway? Race and the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina
Mapping politics
Intervention
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Back in their proper place
The original gerrymander
Democratizing electoral geography
Redistricting and partisan fluidity
Anomalies in red and blue
A TimeSpace for electoral geography
Whither the individual, whither the context
Diversity, density and turnout
The culture wars and urban electoral politics
If it isn't a gerrymander, what is it
Distance-decay in the political geography of friends-and-neighbors voting
Local battles in a national landslide
Communities of interest and minority districting after Miller v. Johnson
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Why context should not count
Disproportionality and bias in US Presidential Elections
Partisan gerrymandering and population instability
A GIS-based spatial analysis on neighborhood effects and voter turn-out
Geography and Election Results
Reflections on current criteria to evaluate redistricting plans
The electoral geographies of two segregationist ("Jim Crow") referenda in Alabama
Friends and neighbours voting revisited
The Law of the Cubic Proportion in Election Results
The Neighbourhood Effect Revisited
Contextual data and the study of elections and voting behavior
Sections and National Growth
The British general election of 2010
The American Tariff Map
Geographic Influences in British Elections
The legal (de)construction of geography
Section and Party
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |