I’ve uploaded a series of my Google Earth electoral maps I have produced. Download these files and open them in Google Earth to view them.

I provide these maps for anyone to use free of charge because I think it’s valuable to be able to use and manipulate maps in order to perform electoral analysis. Most mapping programs are expensive and are out of reach of the amateur psephologist. While Google Earth can’t do all the fancy things that some GIS programs can do, it allows people to do quite a lot. You can download different maps and lay them on top of each other, tweaking the colour and opacity of polygons to produce the result you want. In addition, you can colour maps in different ways to demonstrate data.

I have now completed a tutorial showing how you can customise these maps to make your own maps using Google Earth.

I’ve put quite a lot of work into making these maps. I started collecting them at the beginning of 2008, long before I launched this blog. Some of these maps, particularly the UK, Canadian, Irish, New Zealand and some of Australia’s state maps, required a lot of work to draw them from scratch. If you find these maps useful and use them in your work or use them a lot out of interest, please consider making a donation to help support the blog. There’s a button on the right-hand side of the page which allows you to give a donation through Paypal. If you think these maps are worth money you’d be willing to pay, please consider sending me a donation for them. This will help me continue to produce more of these maps and expand the depth of them.

This work by Ben Raue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia License.

Australia

• New South Wales
  • New South Wales – House of Representatives – 2007
  • New South Wales – House of Representatives – 2010
  • New South Wales – Legislative Assembly – 2007-2011
  • New South Wales – Councils
  • New South Wales – Wards – 2008
• Victoria
  • Victoria – House of Representatives – 2004-2010
  • Victoria – Legislative Assembly – 2002-2010
  • Victoria – Legislative Council – 2002
  • Victoria – Legislative Council – 2006-2010
  • Victoria – Councils
  • Victoria – Wards – 2008
• Queensland
  • Queensland – House of Representatives – 2007
  • Queensland – House of Representatives – 2010
  • Queensland – Legislative Assembly – 2001-2006
  • Queensland – Legislative Assembly – 2009
  • Queensland – Councils
  • Queensland – Wards – 2008
• Western Australia
  • Western Australia – House of Representatives – 2001-2007
  • Western Australia – House of Representatives – 2010
  • Western Australia – Legislative Assembly – 2008
  • Western Australia – Legislative Council – 2008
  • Western Australia – Councils
• South Australia
  • South Australia – House of Representatives – 2004-2010
  • South Australia – House of Assembly – 1997
  • South Australia – House of Assembly – 2002
  • South Australia – House of Assembly – 2006
  • South Australia – House of Assembly – 2010
  • South Australia – Councils
• Tasmania
  • Tasmania – House of Representatives and House of Assembly – 2001-2007
  • Tasmania – House of Representatives and House of Assembly – 2010
  • Tasmania – Legislative Council – 2009
  • Tasmania – Local Government Areas
• Australian Capital Territory
  • ACT – House of Representatives – 2004-2010
  • ACT – Legislative Assembly – 2008
• Northern Territory
  • Northern Territory – House of Representatives – 2001-2010
  • Northern Territory – Legislative Assembly – 2008

United States of America

• Midwest – House of Representatives – 2002-2010
• Northeast – House of Representatives – 2002-2010
• South – House of Representatives – 2002-2010
• West – House of Representatives – 2002-2010

Canada

• House of Commons – 2004-2008
• British Columbia – Legislative Assembly (FPP) – 2009-2013

New Zealand

• New Zealand – Parliament – 2008

Republic of Ireland

• Ireland – Dáil Éireann – 2007
• Ireland – Dáil Éireann – 2012

United Kingdom

• England – House of Commons – 1997-2005 (incomplete)
• England – House of Commons – 2010
• Scotland – House of Commons – 2005-2010
• Wales – House of Commons – 1997-2005
• Wales – House of Commons – 2010
• Wales – National Assembly – 1999-2003
• Wales – National Assembly – 2007-2011
• Northern Ireland – House of Commons and Legislative Assembly – 1997-2007
• Northern Ireland – House of Commons and Legislative Assembly – 2010-2011