Daily Kos Elections is pleased to introduce a brand-new approach to mapping America's congressional districts. Months in the making, and inspired in part by the Guardian's U.K. election results map, our map aims to provide a much clearer way to visualize election results, demographic data, congressional roll calls, and much more for the entire House of Representatives.
Our map's key feature is that all 435 congressional districts are shown in equal size, represented by five hexagons each. That allows us to preserve each state's shape in rough but identifiable form, and to also place each state in its approximate geographic location, relative to its neighbors.
You can expect to see this map regularly on Daily Kos Elections, so head below the fold to learn more about why we created it, and how everyone can use it.
Mon Jun 15, 2015 at 10:40 PM PT (David Nir): We've released a new version (1.1) of the map, taking into account many of the suggestions made here. Also note that all versions of the hexmap are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.