You can represent those colors per district tho. Just line all the parties up from left to right, weight them properly and then calculate the average value to get a number for how left or right leaning the whole population voted.
For the national result for example you could give the parties these arbitrary ratings for how right or left leaning they are.
Linke: 1
Grüne: 0.6
SPD: 0.2
Union: -0.3
AfD: -1
Then you multiply those by their percentages:
Linke: 8.77
Grüne: 6.97
SPD: 3.28
Union: -8.56
AfD: -20.8
Take the sum, divide by 5 and you get roughly -10% which gives you a great idea for how right or left leaning people voted. Im dumb af, those numbers are all wrong and i dont know how to do math and statistics but surely smart people can figure out a better way to represent voting results than “PARTY WITH MOST VOTES”
But that requires full subjectivity or an arbitrary set of standards to weigh how left/right everyone is. Not what you’d want in impartial reporting, and fails when you can’t easily characterize parties on a left-right spectrum. Where would the BSW go, for example? Anti-immigration, anti-queer rights, but nominatively pro-workers rights and for wealth taxes?
You can represent those colors per district tho. Just line all the parties up from left to right, weight them properly and then calculate the average value to get a number for how left or right leaning the whole population voted.
For the national result for example you could give the parties these arbitrary ratings for how right or left leaning they are.
Then you multiply those by their percentages:
Take the sum, divide by 5 and you get roughly -10% which gives you a great idea for how right or left leaning people voted. Im dumb af, those numbers are all wrong and i dont know how to do math and statistics but surely smart people can figure out a better way to represent voting results than “PARTY WITH MOST VOTES”
But that requires full subjectivity or an arbitrary set of standards to weigh how left/right everyone is. Not what you’d want in impartial reporting, and fails when you can’t easily characterize parties on a left-right spectrum. Where would the BSW go, for example? Anti-immigration, anti-queer rights, but nominatively pro-workers rights and for wealth taxes?