mapping the Australian election (2010 edition)

September 11, 2010
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(This article was first published on simon jackman's blog » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

The AEC makes this reasonably easy, as do the authors of some very helpful R packages, the good people at Google Maps etc.

Full description here (PDF); entire collection here; a sample here, showing Green 1st preferences, by polling places across metropolitan Melbourne:

Melbournemetro Grn Primary

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