File talk:South Africa national election 2009 winner by municipality.svg

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Official opposition, small municipalities.

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Can you source it, specifically municipality locations, so that if I have time I can look into showing official opposition (OO) support with

  • ANC non-majority with COPE as OO
  • ANC non-majority with DA as OO
  • ANC non-majority with IFP as OO
  • DA non-majority with ANC as OO, etc.

Any ideas on how to hilite the small municipalities e.g. that tiny DA one north of Lesotho? -- Jeandré, 2009-04-28t12:08z

The source for the election data is the downloadable results spreadsheets on the IEC website; I wrote a script which totals up the party votes for each municipality. The municipality boundaries come originally from the Municipal Demarcation Board, but for this I just used a blank SVG map which I had lying around on my computer from some earlier project, and I applied the colours to it (with a script - I didn't do all 200+ by hand!). I'll upload the blank map when I get home.
That tiny DA one is the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, where only 257 people voted - apparently 107 voted DA and 106 ANC! So it's a fluke, not really of any significance. As to small municipalities in general, I was thinking of doing separate maps for each province, on which the small ones would be more visible. But the really tiny ones - like the Golden Gate and the one near Beaufort-West (the Karoo NP) are mostly National Parks with really tiny voting numbers, so they're not really important.
If you have specific maps which you want me to draw, I can do that - I already have the scripts and such set up. If you give me the details of what statistics you want, I can pull them together.
I was thinking that it would be nice to have COPE represented somehow, since unlike the USA, the reddish purples aren't always red 1st, blue 2nd. Instead of shades of purple tho, there's more than 2 seat winning parties, so it'd be combinations of the party with the highest % and the OO (even if national's proportional, the visual representation of shades are very interesting), e.g.:
  • ANC non-majority with COPE as OO: light green representing ANC's % vote received, with a touch of COPE's percentage of yellow;
  • DA majority with ANC as OO: dark blue representing DA's % vote, with a touch of the ANC's percentage of green.
If green (ANC) mixed with red (IFP) gets too yellow (COPE), making it hard to identify, then you can ignore the suggestion since the current map is already great. -- Jeandré, 2009-04-28t15:40z
Well, I've done an example at File:South Africa national election 2009 ANC vs DA.svg - that's just showing the two parties, though. I could add in Cope as a red factor (not yellow, since yellow includes a green component) but I don't know how useful that would be - COPE doesn't show up so well, because it only has a small percentage of the votes in any given area. I will, however, be doing maps for each party showing their support levels across the country. - Htonl (talk) 14:43, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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