New The German Election Candidates Map


On 24th September Deutschland volition larn to the polls to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. The Berliner Morgenpost has created a fantastic visualization which helps to explicate who the 2,559 candidates are, what they stand upwards for as well as where they come upwards from.

Each of the 2,559 candidates inwards the 2017 federal election are represented inwards the Alle 2559 Direktkandidaten – Wer sie sind, wofür sie stehen visualization yesteryear a colored dot. As y'all progress through the visualization these colored dots are continually rearranged to grouping the candidates yesteryear political party, yesteryear professional person / occupational background, yesteryear gender, historic menstruum as well as yesteryear house of birth.

The house of nativity of all 2,559 candidates is shown yesteryear placing each of the colored dots on a Leaflet map. Unfortunately y'all can't zoom inwards on the map. Most candidates were born inwards Germany. However, because y'all can't zoom inwards on this big cluster of dots, it is impossible to persuasion the geographical distribution of the candidates' birthplaces inside Germany.

5.4 per centum of candidates were born exterior the borders of the Federal Republic. Unfortunately the inability to zoom inwards on the map places much to a greater extent than attending on these unusual born candidates. As these unusual born candidates are the entirely private dots that y'all tin brand out on the map's default zoom layer they are the dots that y'all are close probable to interact alongside on the map - alongside the mayhap unintended lawsuit of emphasizing their 'foreignness'.
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