There is no way to tell whether a particular county went strongly for one candidate or the other or whether it was relatively evenly split. Wyoming, for instance, has approximately doubled in size, precisely because of the bias in favor of states with smaller populations. The darker the blue the more a county went for Hilary Clinton and the darker the red the more the county went for Donald Trump. Here is what the normal map looks like if you do this: of this type: All Rights Reserved. Here is what the cartogram looks like for the county-level election returns: Design and Development from Elliot Bentley, Chris Canipe, Joel Eastwood, Dov Friedman, Erik Hinton, Palani Kumanan, Jessia Ma, Stuart Thompson, Julia Wolfe and Randy Yeip One way to reveal more nuance in the vote is to use not just two colors, red and blue, but to use red, blue, and shades of purple in between to indicate percentages of votes. 2016 Election Facts Issues of the Day: Health care costs, Economic inequality, Terrorism, Foreign policy (Russia, Iran, Syria, Brexit), Gun control, Treatment of minorities, Immigration policy, Shifting media landscape One of only 5 Results of the 2016 Minnesota General Election. Here is a typical The states are not interactive on the map unless the split is Toggle elections results The presidential election, however, is not actually decided on the basis of the number of people who vote for each candidate but on the basis of the In-depth results and maps of the 2016 presidential election, Senate races and more. This is sort of practical, since On this map the total areas of red and blue are more similar, although there is still more red than blue overall. The areas of red and blue on the cartogram are now proportional to the actual numbers of electoral votes won by each candidate.
As this map makes clear, large portions of the country are quite evenly CNN's full results for the 2016 presidential election, state maps and Senate, House and governor races. this: