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An election apportionment diagram is the graphic representation of election results and the seats in a plenary or
Instead of using a bar or pie chart, the apportionment of seats between the parties in a legislative body such as a parliament can be represented more clearly by displaying the individual representatives of each party as dots in a pattern, because the number of representatives is also significant, and is easily understood visually. The dots are typically coded according to the political color of the respective parties. This was traditionally presented as a seating chart of a
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Apportionment (politics) Statistical charts and diagrams
An election apportionment diagram is the graphic representation of election results and the seats in a plenary or legislative body
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. The chart can also be used to represent data in easy to understand terms, for example by grouping allied parties together.
Background
Votes in an election are often represented using bar charts orpie chart
A pie chart (or a circle chart) is a circular Statistical graphics, statistical graphic, which is divided into slices to illustrate numerical proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each slice (and consequently its central angle and are ...
s, often labeled with the corresponding percentage or number of votes. An example of this can be seen in the BBC Coverage of the 2019 parliamentary election () The apportionment of seats between the parties in a legislative body has a defined set of rules, unique to each body. As an example, the Senate of Virginia
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Instead of using a bar or pie chart, the apportionment of seats between the parties in a legislative body such as a parliament can be represented more clearly by displaying the individual representatives of each party as dots in a pattern, because the number of representatives is also significant, and is easily understood visually. The dots are typically coded according to the political color of the respective parties. This was traditionally presented as a seating chart of a plenary hall
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, but can also be represented in a more abstract fashion which more loosely corresponds to the seating arrangement in a legislature, for example a form of half-donut chart as an abstract representation of a hemicycle, or a stylized representation of the Westminster Parliament, showing government, opposition, speaker and crossbenchers
A crossbencher is an independent or minor party member of some legislatures, such as the British House of Lords and the Parliament of Australia. They take their name from the crossbenches, between and perpendicular to the government and oppositi ...
. In Germany, the order of the bars usually corresponds from left to right to the placement of the parties in the previous election and is thus based on the order given on the ballot, which is regulated in Section 30 of the .
These charts can also be used to represent data in easy to understand terms. An example of this is politicians’ responses to the Orlando shootings.
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File:Bundestag Draft D transparent.png, An election apportionment diagram closely mirroring the actual seating layout of the Bundestag
See also
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