Political data is mostly included in here as a curiosity, not an actionable item. Political research projects aimed at reforming regressive institutions, i.e., those focused on preserving their makeup but putting pressure on them to change exist in a disorganized state and its not worth reforming them. I think examples of this are littlesis.org. They are maybe worth a study, but not to add to. Other reformist ideas are focused on organizing this data for the purpose of making it available in formats useful for organizing campaigns (e.g.). The advantage is that the same information can be useful for organizing the masses of workers. This is distinct from the aims of producers of political maps, who produce maps purely for the sake of political science.
Political Maps
A lot of twitter accounts do this for free, its just hard to organize the source material. I do not consider it a priority to do this, but certainly if society is to be planned at all, this challenge is ahead – whether it will be to enumerate leaders of a Bourgeois state or a workers’ one. Here are some that do this for US Elections:
- https://twitter.com/cinyc9 (www.thecinyc.com/, cinycmaps.com/)
- https://twitter.com/BenjaminBottger
- https://twitter.com/TossupReport
- https://twitter.com/EricC_2002
- https://twitter.com/elium2 (fig1)
- https://twitter.com/InsaneKaine
- https://twitter.com/4st8
- https://twitter.com/SenhorRaposa
- https://twitter.com/Aseemru
Standardization of Geographic Political Data
While it understandable that an individual would try to solve an individual problem, report the results of a single election, standardization is desired. The districts for Federal Governments are probably easy to procure (US Federal and State Districts, asks, and source data) but on the local level this would require additional work (or hopefully research). For example, here is what that might look like for Pennsylvania.