Data Vis Dispatch, November 12

Let’s face it — this Dispatch is going to be packed with visualizations in blue and red. (If you’re interested in even more U.S election trackers, my colleague Lisa has put together a long list!)

But let’s keep in mind: Whether a state is colored blue or red, the decision was never unanimous:

All year we’ve seen visualizations with a focus on swing states. In the end, Trump won them all:

Non-battleground states also swung right. In fact, Republicans gained ground everywhere but Washington state:

Who were the people that assured Trump’s victory? Multiple visualizations break them down into more or less conventional demographic groups:

These maps showed changes in voting patterns over the years:

Of course, the presidential race wasn’t last week’s only U.S. election! On November 5, all 435 Congressional seats, as well as 35 of the 100 senators, were also up for grabs:

Most Europeans say they would have supported Harris over Trump — but in their own elections, they’ve also preferred to throw out incumbents this year:

Phew, we’re done! Cut to the #30DayMapChallenge: The past week we especially enjoyed the categories “vintage” and “hand-drawn”:

Other maps covered floods in Valencia and South Korea’s concept of “resident population“:

It’s time to take a break from maps. How about creative visualizations of animals?:

Finally, an extremely dry New York City, global tobacco consumption, dengue fever in Mexico, and the evergreen question, “Is the love song dead?”: