The Republic of Zambia held general elections on August 12, 2021. We got our hands on the results published by The Electoral Commission of Zambia and decided to map the presidential election results! With a total of 156 constituencies, scattered across the 10 provinces, visualising the results at constituency level provides interesting insights into what has happened since the last elections five years ago, in 2016. Continue reading “Learning from Data: Mapping Regional Voting Patterns in the 2021 Zambia Presidential Elections”
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Mapping the 2013-14 ZDHS HIV/AIDS Prevalence Rates in Zambia
Sometime last year, we got our hands on the 2013-14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey report [1]. The document has a wealth of information regarding demographic and health aspects of the Zambian population as a whole. Today, we are sharing visual output of maps showing regional HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in Zambia. Continue reading “Mapping the 2013-14 ZDHS HIV/AIDS Prevalence Rates in Zambia”
Mapping Historical Regional Voting Patterns of Zambia Presidential Election Results
More maps! This time around, we have generated historical maps for regional presidential election results. We think this provides a better understanding of regional voting patterns over the years. For each of the presidential elections held between 1991 and 2016, we visualise the final regional (READ: provincial) outcomes and, additionally, results by electoral administrative boundaries (READ: constituencies). Continue reading “Mapping Historical Regional Voting Patterns of Zambia Presidential Election Results”
Mapping the Zambia 2016 Presidential Election Results
We finally got our hands on the most recent Shapefiles [1]. Also, a few weeks back, we got our hands on the official Electoral Commission of Zambia presidential election results [2] and did some really basic analysis. So we decided to visualise the results. No commentary here, just maps… and more maps. Continue reading “Mapping the Zambia 2016 Presidential Election Results”
Mapping the Zambia 2011 Elections Results Using Google Fusion Tables
I have been playing around with Shapefiles [1] these last couple of weeks. So I got the most recently available Zambia GDM Shapefiles [2], made a few modifications to take into account Muchinga Province and new districts, and subsequently merged the DBF file with the 2011 presidential elections results [3]. While I have been exclusively using R packages like maptools [4], I spent the last few minutes working with Google Fusion Tables [5] and came up with the interactive map below. Continue reading “Mapping the Zambia 2011 Elections Results Using Google Fusion Tables”