Data journalist/designer, Montana
Published
Edited
Nov 11, 2020
compareCandidates = (candidate1, candidate2) => {
const results1 = candidateResultsByCounty(candidate1)
const results2 = candidateResultsByCounty(candidate2)
const totals1 = totalVotesByCounty(results1[0].RaceName, results1[0].year)
const totals2 = totalVotesByCounty(results2[0].RaceName, results2[0].year)
return counties.map(county => {
const candidate1Votes = results1.find(d => d.CountyName === county).votes
const candidate1Total = totals1.find(d => d.county === county).totalVotes
const candidate2Votes = results2.find(d => d.CountyName === county).votes
const candidate2Total = totals2.find(d => d.county === county).totalVotes
return {
county: county,
candidate1Votes: candidate1Votes,
candidate1Percent: candidate1Votes / candidate1Total,
candidate2Votes: candidate2Votes,
candidate2Percent: candidate2Votes / candidate2Total,
difference: candidate2Votes - candidate1Votes,
differencePercent: (candidate2Votes / candidate2Total) - (candidate1Votes / candidate1Total),
// percentChange: (candidate2Votes - candidate1Votes) / candidate1Votes
}
})
}
// colorScales = {
// // From https://colorbrewer2.org/
// 'D': ['#f1eef6','#d0d1e6','#a6bddb', '#3690c0','#0570b0','#034e7b'],
// 'R': ['#fee5d9','#fcbba1','#fc9272','#ef3b2c','#cb181d','#99000d'],
// 'L': ['#edf8e9','#c7e9c0','#a1d99b','#41ab5d','#238b45','#005a32'],
// 'default': ['#f2f0f7', '#dadaeb', '#bcbddc', '#9e9ac8', '#756bb1', '#54278f'],
// }
voteShiftColor = d3.scaleLinear()
.domain([-5000,-1000,0,1000,5000])
.range(['#b35806','#f1a340','#fee0b6','#f7f7f7','#d8daeb','#998ec3','#542788'])
voteShiftColor(10)
demVotesColor = d3.scaleLinear()
.domain([0, 100, 500, 1000, 10000, 50000])
.range(['#f1eef6','#d0d1e6','#a6bddb', '#3690c0','#0570b0','#034e7b'])
totalVotesByCounty("UNITED STATES SENATOR","2018")
mergeInData(countyFeatures, candidateResultsByCounty("JON TESTER (D) - 2018"), 'NAMELABEL', 'CountyName')
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