Using Scrollytelling to Explain Voting Power in Ecuador

Resumen

We present a scrollytelling visualization that explains the concept of “voting power”, which refers to the influence that a group of voters have, relative to the geographical area they live in, on an election’s outcome. We explain this in the context of Ecuador, a country with electoral districts of varied sizes and populations (and, thus, varied voting power). Our visualization is designed to explain that a bigger territory does not necessarily imply more votes. Understanding this concept is particularly important in Ecuador, a country that officially depicts elections results through maps that use color hue to indicate the winning candidate of a given geographical area.