{"id":4586,"date":"2011-11-25T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:05:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:05:18","slug":"cartography-gregor-robertson-voting-percentage-and-dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/11\/25\/cartography-gregor-robertson-voting-percentage-and-dis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartography: Gregor Robertson voting percentage and dis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011_Robertson_polls_extruded_final.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4588\" title=\"2011_Robertson_polls_extruded_final\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011_Robertson_polls_extruded_final-600x463.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011_Robertson_polls_extruded_final-600x463.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011_Robertson_polls_extruded_final-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011_Robertson_polls_extruded_final.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/spacingvancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/features\/carto-speaking_feature-VAN.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were many great election-related maps being released this past week, and on the strength of many that I have created in the past, I decided to reinterpret some of the base data release by the City of Vancouver three-dimensionally as a means of clarifying the information.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011_Robertson_polls_extruded_final.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">graphic here<\/a> depicts Gregor Robertson voting percentage and its spatial distribution across the city.\u00a0 Percentage is straightforwardly shown in the vertical scale and is emphasized using a colour saturation\/value scale &#8211; from the\u00a0 deepest blue representing the highest voting percentage to a very light blue, referring to the lowest.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This means of representation highlights several interesting patterns, a few of which are worth pointing out. On election day, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/11\/19\/its-election-day-heres-how-your-ballots-count-tonight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spacing Vancouver<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/11\/19\/its-election-day-heres-how-your-ballots-count-tonight\/\" target=\"_blank\"> discussed<\/a> the transition from an East\/West  ideological divide to a North\/South alignment, and that trend is clearly visible again. Although the NPA made some strides in Coal Harbour and  Hastings-Sunrise while ceding some of north Kerrisdale to Vision, most  trades continued the trend. West Point Grey, NPA since COPE&#8217;s 2002  breakthrough, went solidly Vision, while the NPA won back swaths of  Renfrew-Collingwood.<\/p>\n<p>Much was made of Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver and Randy Helten&#8217;s emergence as a mayoral candidate for disaffected COPE voters, not to mention the West End &#8211; but even there he only ranged between 5 and 10%, with Robertson&#8217;s dipping no lower than 55%. While this was Helten&#8217;s base as suspected, it was a rather small base and results elsewhere in the city were even lower. Only one poll (just across Burrard Street) and an advance poll were higher than the lowest West End poll.<\/p>\n<p>Suzanne Anton was the opposition choice here, but of only between 23 and 37% of voters, including some of her lowest polls. As the map shows, West End discontent with Vision is widely exaggerated, or at least there were no viable alternatives this election.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Erick Villagomez<\/strong> is an educator, independent researcher and designer with personal and professional interests in urban landscapes. He is also the principal of Metis Design-Build, a practice that works on diverse projects ranging from small-scale architecture to urban design consulting, as well as information design\/visualization. Furthermore, Erick is one of the founders and editors of Spacing Vancouver.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; There were many great election-related maps being released this past week, and on the strength of many that I have created in the past, I decided to reinterpret some of the base data release by the City of Vancouver three-dimensionally as a means of clarifying the information. The graphic here depicts Gregor Robertson<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/11\/25\/cartography-gregor-robertson-voting-percentage-and-dis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Cartography: Gregor Robertson voting percentage and dis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11232,90],"tags":[4,851,6407,769,410,746,5920,6406,6222,5401,214],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-maps","tag-cartography","tag-coal-harbour","tag-eastwest","tag-erick-villagomez","tag-gregor-robertson","tag-independent-researcher-and-designer","tag-mayoral-candidate","tag-one-of-the-founders","tag-randy-helten","tag-suzanne-anton","tag-vancouver-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cartography: Gregor Robertson voting percentage and dis - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/11\/25\/cartography-gregor-robertson-voting-percentage-and-dis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cartography: Gregor Robertson voting percentage and dis - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; There were many great election-related maps being released this past week, and on the strength of many that I have created in the past, I decided to reinterpret some of the base data release by the City of Vancouver three-dimensionally as a means of clarifying the information. 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