What is it for?
Our Parliament chart template offers a simple but powerful overview of election outcomes. It features a circular or semi-circular array of dots that visualize the distribution of seats among political parties, as well as a summary table of results underneath.
You can also include several election results in a single visualization and show how results have changed over time.
How to get started
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- Choose from the Parliament chart starting points, add your data to the template.
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Your data should have one column for the names of the political parties, followed by a column for each election you want to include in the filter, like so:
- Then you can bind your columns.
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- In the Preview tab, under Parliament layout settings, choose how many seats there should be in total, as well as the size of the arc and the space inside it.
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The size of the arc is specified in degrees, where 360 would create a full circle layout, and 180 would create an exact semi-circle.
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With these settings you can also choose the number of rows: Auto will set an optimum amount or go for Fixed to choose yourself.
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By enabling or disabling Highlight parties on hover, all a party's seats are highlighted on hover, as well as their seat total being displayed in the center of the arc.
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Under Colors, choose your color palette or use custom overrides to specify individual party colors. If you don't know the outcome of some seats yet, remember to choose an appropriate Unassigned outline color too.
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Customize your Labels by specifying a weight and size both for Seat count and Party name.
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By enabling Legend mode, you can add a legend title, and also change the width, height, roundness and padding of the swatches.
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In case you want to display some of the entities in the legend or change their order, enter them into the Custom order override text box.
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If you want to exlude parties that did not get any seats, enable Don't include parties that don't have any seats.
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- Under the Table settings, you can opt for a tabular visualization of the election results. The Table includes a column for each election and a seat change column.
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Choose colors for gains and losses in the seat change column.
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To calculate the gains and losses, use the Seat change setting to choose which columns it should calculate from.
- Off: no seat change column
- Auto: automatically calculates the change between the last two columns bound to Seats
- Custom: choose which columns to calculate the seat change from (specifying using column names)
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TIP: If the seat change sums look wrong, try swapping the columns entered in the Seat change before and Seat change after settings.
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For added visual aid, you can add a majority line.
It is also possible to customise the dash width, its offset, thickness and color. It is also possible to enter your own text that will accompany the line and choose a color for it.