If ever an election wanted a cartogram map, it was the 2025 Australian federal election.
Should you have been to view The Australian’s Citizens Map – 2025, you could possibly be forgiven for pondering the Liberals had cruised to a landslide victory. This conventional cartogram election map is visually dominated by the blue of the Liberal Social gathering. It additionally seems as if the Labor Social gathering (proven utilizing salmon pink) made just a few modest positive factors within the Northern Territory, Tasmania, and a handful of electorates within the southeast of the nation.
It simply goes to verify the well-worn cliché: “kangaroos do not vote — folks do.”
The Guardian’s “Exaggerated” view does a barely higher job of visually representing the big variety of city seats gained by Labor on this election. Their Australian election outcomes 2025 map map permits customers to toggle between a standard geographical view and an exaggerated one, wherein “smaller electorates are elevated in measurement for visibility.”
Nonetheless, even The Guardian’s exaggerated view nonetheless falls in need of clearly conveying the complete story of the 2025 election – with 82% of the outcomes referred to as, Labor holds 82 seats in comparison with simply 32 for the L/NP Coalition.
ABC Information’ Stay: Maps present swing to Labor, crash in Coalition vote does a superb job of illustrating the large swing to Labor on this election in comparison with 2022. Utilizing a collection of swing arrow maps, ABC visualizes the adjustments in vote share because the earlier election in each the two-party-preferred vote and the first vote. The screenshot above reveals “the change within the two-candidate-preferred vote in every citizens.” As you may see, there are way more crimson arrows — representing a swing in the direction of Labor — than blue arrows — which point out a swing in the direction of the Coalition.
