The Republican Celebration has gained the favored vote in just one Presidential Election within the final 35 years. Since 1989 solely George W. Bush (in 2004) has gained the favored vote for the Republicans – and in that election Bush benefited from being the incumbent.
A newly launched visualization from the College of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab highlights the dwindling attraction of the Republican Celebration to most People within the twenty first Century. The DSL’s Electing the President interactive map reveals the outcomes of each presidential election since 1840, providing a complete take a look at the electoral panorama over time. Not like many historic election maps, Electing the President uniquely integrates the outcomes of the favored vote alongside the electoral faculty outcomes, offering a extra nuanced understanding of voter preferences. This function permits customers to see not solely who gained the presidency but in addition how a lot assist they garnered from the final voters.
Utilizing the map you possibly can navigate to any US Presidential election and discover each the electoral faculty winner and the winner of the favored vote. As an illustration, customers can discover how presidential candidates like William Henry Harrison, who defeated Martin Van Buren in 1840 to turn into the ninth President of the US (albeit for a tragically temporary time period of only one month), fared by way of widespread assist. By navigating by way of the years, one can monitor shifts in political alignment and public sentiment, illustrating the evolving dynamics of American electoral politics and the challenges confronted by events in capturing the collective will of the populace.
Electing the President is the newest addition to the American Panorama undertaking, an ever rising historic atlas of the US. The undertaking consists of numerous widespread interactive maps together with Mapping Inequality (the historical past of redlining), and Photogrammar, mapping historic pictures taken between 1935 and 1944.
