by Maurice Y. Michaud (he/him)
Big tables of numbers are not always the best way to see the evolution of major political families over time. Some of us are more visual. Also, having too much information presented at once can, indeed, be too much! So this interface allows you to look at the results of past partisan elections in Canada visually within an historical context.
Often you will notice an obvious discrepency between the pie chart that shows the percentages of the votes the parties obtained in the selected election, and the bar chart that shows the percentages of seats they obtained in that election. But then, the two line charts below the first two charts, which look at the last 10 elections, often reveal a strong pattern whereby the parties consistently perform much better in getting votes than they do in winning seats. The fewer there are seats in a legislature, the greater the gap tends to be, but larger legislatures are not immune to this disproportionality phenomenon.
