Votes & Posts

US 2016 Presidential Election Candidates
The United States' Presidential Election 2016, scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, 2016, will be the 58th quadrennial U.S. election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will elect a new president and vice president through the Electoral College. The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses is taking place between February 1 and June 14,2016 among the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.

Candidates Instagram Profiles

As an online mobile image-sharing and video-sharing social networking service, Instagram has more than 400 millions daily-active users. Take an example of those 7 candidates of the election shown below, it is interesting to see the connection between their actually votes during election and their popularity on social media.

Candidates Election Votes & Posts

The following timeline represents:
  • Commulative number of votes in the stepped line graph
  • Candidates who dropped out and when
  • The number of instagram posts on each day represented by number of circles. Size of the circle represents number of likes on that posts.