Development

When I started working on this project in early 2022, I could not have imagined how much time it would take to complete. I built it with the goal of combining my interest in political science with my interest in computer science, and so I could create a complete repository of election results to reference as needed. In the process of developing this website, I faced many different challenges, so I would like to record some of them here.

• scraping data from thousands of websites containing election results (I used Wikipedia and Dave Leip's election atlas for data)
• manually noting hundreds of county election results from books
• making an algorithm to dilate lattitude longitude coordinates to pixel coordinates
• creating an algorithm to draw choropleth maps
• creating thousands of custom-made choropleth maps
• creating thousands of downloadable csvs containing election results

Future Changes

To improve the site, I want to keep moving backwards to get more and more election data. Currently, I have senatorial data from 1990 to 2023, gubernatorial data from 1990 to 2023, and presidential data from 1916 to 2023. I want to keep going to make a larger repository for people to use and to make the game more interesting with more party systems.