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Presidential election popular vote tallies lined up against “did not vote” (mbin.grits.dev)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The percentages for 2016 only add up to 97, and the 40% bar is longer than the 41% of 2012.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe 3% voted for a third party, and because they aren't shown the other bars were expanded to fill the entire space

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They could've done a little green sliver like they did for 1980.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Looks like '95 has 5% third party votes. The lower bound for visually representing votes here may be somewhere between 5% and 3% for the purposes of this graphic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Just like the sub on reddit, the data in DataIsBeautiful apparently doesn't actually have to be beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, sometimes it say "won" or lost" behind the candidates, sometimes there is an asterisk, but for many entries, there is no information who won and who lost?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The asterisk is explained up top, and they only indicate who won when it is backwards from the popular vote total.