Data Vis Dispatch, April 19

This week brought more maps of the presidential results in France:

With the first-round vote in, there was time for some deeper analysis — first, of the growing success of far-right candidates:

And second, of the dismal results for France’s traditional major parties:

Looking ahead to the runoff vote this Sunday, Les Echos and Le Monde both offered interactive tools to explore how other candidates’ supporters might split between Macron and Le Pen:

Meanwhile, Russia is renewing its attack on eastern Ukraine:

Although Ukrainian troops in Mariupol are still holding out after over a month of siege, the news from the city is bleak:

Millions of Ukrainians are displaced internally and abroad, while Russian media still barely acknowledges the war:

Europe is looking to liquid natural gas as an alternative to Russian imports:

Even as key sectors miss their targets to lower emissions:

After two years of COVID, the treatment backlog is overwhelming England’s healthcare system:

A breakout topic of the week — the richest Americans and where their money goes:

And two neat rank charts took us through a century of Northern Irish politics on the one hand, and intergenerational social media usage on the other:

Other visualizations covered everything from high tides after Tonga’s volcanic eruption to the rise of Uniqlo in China: