Geo-mapped visualization of political party member distribution in Male'

Here is a quick mashup I cooked up today, displaying the geographic distribution of political party membership on the map of Male' on Google Maps. To view the distribution for a party, open the link for the visualization, select the name of the political party from the drop-down menu at the top right. The addresses of members of that party will then be flagged with a little red marker. You will be able to zoom in-out, pan and do all those other things typically seen in Google Maps. Click a red marker to see more details about that address, like the number of people belonging to the selected party that are registered under that address.

The party membership information used for this is a snapshot of the data (taken 7 February 2009) published on the Members of Political Parties web portal by the Elections Commission. There were a total of 4,447 people belonging to 2,711 addresses in Male' listed in the Elections Commission data. Each party had membership numbers (given in brackets) in Male' as follows: Adhaalathu Party (175), Dhivehi Qaumee Party (261), Dhivehi Rahjeyn Fageerukan Nahthaalumah Masahkaikuraa Party (650), Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (243), Gaumee Ih'thihaadh (592), Islamic Democratic Party (89), Jumhooree Party (246), Maldivian Democratic Party (507), Maldivian National Congress (386), Maldivian Social Democratic Party (25), Peoples Party (476), Peoples' Alliance (422) and Social Liberal Party (375). The maximum number of persons listed on a single address for a party was 12 and the average was 1 person per address (per party).

The geo-location information for the addresses was derived from the excellent services at Male-map.com and EAtolls.com. A total of 1,928 addresses were successfully mapped using these services, leaving a difference of 783 addresses which were then discarded. It is worth noting that of these addresses left out, 478 were just Dhaftharu numbers.

Please note that I neither claim nor guarantee the correctness or the completeness of any of the information used. That said, I did my best to ensure data integrity throughout the whole process of generating the visualizations.

- Click here to view the visualization

Snapshot: Adhaalathu Party


Snapshot: Dhivehi Qaumee Party


Snapshot: Dhivehi Rahjeyn Fageerukan
Nahthaalumah Masahkaikuraa Party


Snapshot: Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party


Snapshot: Gaumee Ih'thihaadh


Snapshot: Islamic Democratic Party


Snapshot: Jumhooree Party


Snapshot: Maldivian Democratic Party


Snapshot: Maldivian National Congress


Snapshot: Maldivian Social Democratic Party


Snapshot: Peoples' Alliance


Snapshot: Peoples Party


Snapshot: Social Liberal Party

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1. Jaheen says:
   
   #1 2009-02-09 04:25 (Reply)

   awesome stuff, man..
   keep up the interesting stuff coming

2. subcorpus says:
   
   #2 2009-02-09 14:58 (Reply)

   as jaheen said ... this is very interesting stuff ...
   it reminds me ... i need to write up a letter to get out from "raaje in fageeru kan naththaa party" ...
   i dont know when i joined and why i joined this party ...
   especially coz i have never heard of this party ...
   but i still need to write up that letter ...
   jeez ...

3. Abdulla Yasir says:
   
   #3 2009-02-09 17:27 (Reply)

   Hey Jaa,
   I tried the application and it is so cool. I must say though, there is also an undecided group which you have not covered. I have no idea what the size is, in relation to those that you have shown.
   
   On another note it just shows how fragmented we are in our political views, despite the low population and, there are implications.
   
   Regards
   Abdulla Yasir

4. f i Я a s says:
   
   #4 2009-02-09 18:01 (Reply)

   hey jaa... this is both informative and well presented... good stuff!!

5. Simon says:
   
   #5 2009-02-09 19:20 (Reply)

   Really, very cool work, Jaa!

6. jaa says:
   
   #6 2009-02-09 20:51 (Reply)

   Thanks guys
   
   subcorpus: There sure is a heck of a lot of people in that party! Atleast according to the elections data... hehe.
   
   yasir: Given that there were only 4,447 people in Male' listed for all parties put together, there are thousands not officially aligned with any party. And, you are very right about fragmentation. What I found interesting was the lack of, atleast any blatantly apparent, clustering and divisions by area. Fragmentation + Divisions = Bad news (or so I would think!)

7. Muiz says:
   
   #7 2009-02-12 12:59 (Reply)

   Great work Jaa!
   
   Yea the "faqeerukan naththaalaa party" has got many people from Male', and to my knowledge there are an imense number of people who have no knowledge they belong to that party! I hope this work from yours can help many people to figure out easily whether they belong to that party or not.
   
   Why not make this more publisized so that more people will use it to find this out?

8. jaa says:
   
   #8 2009-02-13 00:04 (Reply)

   Thanks Muiz.
   
   Hehe. This is as much publicized as I can make it! Maybe I'll keep this updated in the future so that any changes are visible and apparent.

9. nadu says:
   
   #9 2009-02-15 19:11 (Reply)

   i didnt knw we had that many parties

10. keyolhubey says:
    
    #10 2009-03-31 12:21 (Reply)

    This is great work jaa. if you can include all islands of Maldives this will be a great masterpiece.

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