06 - Political Change in Greece

[kellykiki]

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Pitch

Summary

At the moment that European institutions and Greece welcome the country's exit from the bailout program and before the next Greek national elections in 2019, I would like to present the political change in Greece over the years, especially during the crisis years.

I am using historical data about election results (1974 onwards) as they are provided on the Greek Parliament website that I scraped for my previous project (please see more here).

I am also using election results by electoral district (2012 onwards), which are provided by the Ministry of Interior.

I aim to hyperlink my previous project to this one, when I end up with two different webpages.

Details

Possible headline(s):

Data set(s):

• Election results provided by the Greek Parliament
• Election results by district provided by the Ministry of Interior

Code repository: Coded included here

Possible problems/fears/questions: Related to my current QJIS skills and some challenges regarding Greece's electoral and geographical districts shapefiles available

Work so far

Graph 1

Number of parties represented in the Parliament by national elections round

More parties than ever have captured seats in the current parliament

Graph 2

Election results (%) over the years

Former government forces are smashed during the crisis years and the former minor party SYRIZA succeeds to be the major government force; the "neo-nazi" Golden Dawn party captures seats in the Parliament in 2012 and retains its percentage since then

NOTE: Only data about parties traditionally represented in the Parliament are included here -plus Golden Dawn data, as its representation in the Parliament has been a major change during the crisis years

Map [DRAFT]

Vote for Golden Dawn (%) by electoral district (2015, September)

Next Steps

For the update version of this project, I will try to map the Golden Dawn's percentages in three more elections rounds, from May 2012 to January 2015. I would like to display if the geographical distribution has changed over the years or not.

Checklist

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[sarahslo]

i like the election results chart a lot, i wish the red & orange were more different because i'm not 100% sure which is which.

for the map, when you have a color ramp if you divide it by more than 5 colors they become too similar to distinguish. look at your blacks in isolation.

i'd work on color because you have everything in place here for a story. but if we can't see it clearly you are hiding your good work.

[kellykiki]

Thank you, @sarahslo! I' m posting an update taking into account your feedback. And I' ll still need to work more on districts' colors for the map.

[kellykiki]

Update

Content

Graph 1

Number of parties represented in the Parliament by national elections round

More parties than ever have captured seats in the current parliament

Graph 2

Vote percentage for parties represented in the Parliament over the years

Former government forces are smashed during the crisis years and the former minor party SYRIZA succeeds to be the major government force; the "neo-nazi" Golden Dawn party captures seats in the Parliament in 2012 and retains its percentage since then

Maps

Vote for Golden Dawn (%) by electoral district over the years

2015, September

2015, January

2012, June

2012, May

NOTE:

I need to work more on the color-style I will use for districts where vote percentage is lower than 3% - those districts "did not send" Golden Dawn in the Greek Parliament, since 3% of vote is the threshold for a party to be represented in the parliament.

Any changes in direction or topic?

Nope

Problems/Questions

QJIS things

Checklist

• [X] I have included my visuals
• [X] I have filled out the sections above
• [X] I have been updating my DIARY.md with details about my process
• [X] I have uploaded/updated any Jupyter Notebooks or other datasets into my code repository