Distance-to-poll visualization

“My friend Peter”, as I refer to him frequently in anecdotes around the house, has posted a few fascinating visualizations of how far people need to travel to vote in the upcoming Prince Edward Island provincial election.

A map showing the distance from each address on Prince Edward Island to the corresponding polling station
Visualization by Peter Rukavina from Ruk.ca

For those not following along with the democratic experiments of Canada’s smallest province, this next election is paired with a referendum on proportional representation. While it is as much advocacy as information, I found this 8-minute explanation of the Mixed-Member Proportional (MMP) electoral system in question to be helpful.

 

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