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Here's what the US presidential election map looks like adjusted for population by Andy Kiersz on Nov 16, 2016, 11:21 AM Advertisement
 New 2016 election data released this week shows where Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican President-elect Donald Trump won and lost. After each of the last four presidential elections, University of Michigan physicist Mark Newman has produced a series of maps showing the results, while rescaling states and counties by population. The results are fascinating, and show a country largely split between deep-blue cities and a scarlet-red countryside. Here are Newman's maps showing the results of the 2016 election. Here's the basic electoral college map, with states that Hillary Clinton won in blue and states that Donald Trump won in red (assuming that Trump's narrow lead in Michigan continues to hold). 
But, of course, the US population is not evenly distributed among the states. This map distorts the sizes of the states to reflect their varying populations. 
Populations alone don't win presidential elections; Electoral College votes do. This map sizes states based on number of electoral votes. It's similar to the population-weighted map, but some smaller states like Wyoming and Vermont are somewhat bigger, while more populous states like California and Texas are a bit smaller. 
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