The 2016 Presidential Election Cartogram Based on Electors

The geographically accurate cartogram above represents the 2016 presidential election with states resized according to the number of electors they have.  The more electors a state has, the larger it is on the map.  Compared to traditional maps, this map shows the electoral vote in a more accurate way painting the entirety of the United States with the appropriate amount of each color.

Findings

• The Northeast is considerably larger on this map as so many electors are distributed among these states.
• States west of the Mississippi River (with few exceptions) have very few electors and are squeezed together at the far western edge of the country.

Caveats

• The borders represent the area of the state if it were based on electors.  The location of the states on the map is irrelevant.

Details

The significance of carrying California, Texas, Florida, and New York really comes through in a map like this.

Even states with few electors can prove to be critical if they are close to each other and have similar characteristics.

Data

State	Clinton Votes	Percent Clinton	Clinton Electors	Trump Votes	Percent Trump	Trump Electors
Alabama	729,547	34.36	0	1,318,255	62.08	9
Alaska	116,454	36.55	0	163,387	51.28	3
Arizona	1,161,167	45.13	0	1,252,401	48.67	11
Arkansas	380,494	33.65	0	684,872	60.57	6
California	8,753,788	61.73	55	4,483,810	31.62	0
Colorado	1,338,870	48.16	9	1,202,484	43.25	0
Connecticut	897,572	54.57	7	673,215	40.93	0
Delaware	235,603	53.09	3	185,127	41.72	0
District of Columbia	282,830	90.48	3	12,723	4.07	0
Florida	4,504,975	47.82	0	4,617,886	49.02	29
Georgia	1,877,963	45.64	0	2,089,104	50.77	16
Hawaii	266,891	62.22	3	128,847	30.03	0
Idaho	189,765	27.49	0	409,055	59.26	4
Illinois	3,090,729	55.83	20	2,146,015	38.76	0
Indiana	1,033,126	37.91	0	1,557,286	56.82	11
Iowa	653,669	41.74	0	800,983	51.15	6
Kansas	427,005	36.05	0	671,018	56.65	6
Kentucky	628,854	32.68	0	1,202,971	62.52	8
Louisiana	780,154	38.45	0	1,178,638	58.09	8
Maine	357,735	47.83	4	335,593	44.87	0
Maryland	1,677,928	60.33	10	943,169	33.91	0
Massachusetts	1,995,196	60.01	11	1,090,893	32.81	0
Michigan	2,268,839	47.27	0	2,279,543	47.50	16
Minnesota	1,367,716	46.44	10	1,322,951	44.92	0
Mississippi	485,131	40.11	0	700,714	57.94	6
Missouri	1,071,068	38.14	0	1,594,511	56.77	10
Montana	177,709	35.75	0	279,240	56.17	3
Nebraska	284,494	33.70	0	495,961	58.75	5
Nevada	539,260	47.92	6	512,058	45.50	0
New Hampshire	348,526	46.98	4	345,790	46.61	0
New Jersey	2,148,278	54.99	14	1,601,933	41.00	0
New Mexico	385,234	48.26	5	319,667	40.04	0
New York	4,556,124	59.01	29	2,819,534	36.52	0
North Carolina	2,189,316	46.17	0	2,362,631	49.83	15
North Dakota	93,758	27.23	0	216,794	62.96	3
Ohio	2,394,164	43.56	0	2,841,005	51.69	18
Oklahoma	420,375	28.93	0	949,136	65.32	7
Oregon	1,002,106	50.07	7	782,403	39.09	0
Pennsylvania	2,926,441	47.46	0	2,970,733	48.18	20
Rhode Island	252,525	54.41	4	180,543	38.90	0
South Carolina	855,373	40.67	0	1,155,389	54.94	9
South Dakota	117,458	31.74	0	227,721	61.53	3
Tennessee	870,695	34.72	0	1,522,925	60.72	11
Texas	3,877,868	43.24	0	4,685,047	52.23	36
Utah	310,676	27.46	0	515,231	45.54	6
Vermont	178,573	56.68	3	95,369	30.27	0
Virginia	1,981,473	49.73	13	1,769,443	44.41	0
Washington	1,742,718	52.54	8	1,221,747	36.83	0
West Virginia	188,794	26.43	0	489,371	68.50	5
Wisconsin	1,382,536	46.45	0	1,405,284	47.22	10
Wyoming	55,973	21.63	0	174,419	67.40	3

Sources

The Green Papers.  2017.  "2016 Presidential Election by State."  Accessed November 14, 2017.  http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G16/President-Details.phtml.