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It's time for the "land doesn't vote, people do" map, Canada 2025 edition:
Created by Jens von Bergmann (@jensvb.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy / @vb_jens) with more details and a cool animation here: https://doodles.mountainmath.ca/posts/2025-04-28-elections-fun---2025-edition/
A great article from @sightlineinstitute about how Proportional Representation would benefit Whatcom County: https://www.sightline.org/2025/04/10/whatcom-county-eyes-a-prime-election-upgrade/
#ProportionalRepresentation #ElectoralReform #WhatcomCounty #Cascadia #BellinghamWA
Takeaways Can your voice be heard if you’re in a small red bubble in a blue sea? Or if you see yourself as one of a handful of blue flowers in a field of red? In most of Cascadia’s governing bodies, the answer is no. In the region’s prevailing winner-take-all elections, whichever side gets the ... Read more
Nice article in #CascadiaDaily about one of our favorite local artworks, the "Non Sign II" sculpture at the Blaine border crossing:
#Cascadia #BellinghamWA #BritishColumbia #WashingtonState #PeaceArch #BlaineWA #border #artwork #sculpture #Canada #PublicArt #LandArt
Ok, final update of this chart for day 43, now that the results have been finalized and the Electoral College has met. In the end, Trump's total is 49.9% of the total vote. The 4.7 million vote gap between Trump and Harris on election night narrowed to 2.3 million by the time all the votes were counted.
I updated the chart of popular vote totals for day 20. The lines for 2024 continue to flatten out, suggesting that we are counting votes faster this time than in 2020.
Although it's hard to see on the chart, Harris's 2024 votes (so far) have now passed Trump's final totals from 2020.
Also, according to Wikipedia (sourced from AP News) Trump's share of the vote in 2024 still sits exactly at 50.0%. It will likely drop below 50% when all the votes are counted. #election2024 #uspol #uspolitics
And here is the same popular vote count chart, plotted on a logarithmic scale, with a trend line fitted to each data series. Adjusting the X axis like this means that the trend shows up as a straight line.
This is not at all a scientific way to estimate the final results, but you can see a rough approximation of what the final numbers might be in two or three more weeks. The popular vote will be very close in the end, but Harris will not overtake.
Here's the presidential popular vote chart for day 14, compared with where the totals were at this time in 2020.
The gap between Trump and Harris continues to narrow (and Trump is about to drop below 50% of the total vote according to Wikipedia). But the growth of both totals appears to be slowing relative to 2020. That likely means that the remaining votes are being counted a bit faster than last time.
