De la comparaison des cartes électorales

Abstract

Electoral maps are used both by a large public, as an information tool, and by scientists as a political and geographical analysis tool. The researcher often has to make comparisons between maps to get a better understanding of the political phenomenon that are going on. But making map comparisons is not that easy! The purpose of this article is to draw some methodologic well-known possibilities in making maps comparisons, which can be applied to electoral geography to help improve our knowledge of political phenomenon.

Keywords

• electoral geography
• political geography
• methodology
• spatial similarity coefficients
• map
• Pearson correlation