Pretty maps of the NY mayoral election vote. (The meta-point here is that people have a (false) intuition that any complicated piece of information can be conveyed in a single plot.)

In reaction to my recent post, If Cuomo had been able to run against Mamdani head-to-head, would he have won?, sociologist Kieran Healy posted a pair of maps showing precinct-level results from the recent New York mayoral election. One of … Continue reading →