1. School of Geography and Planning, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Geo-simulation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
2. School of Geography, Southern China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Abstract Electoral geography has a long and complex history and once possessed a distinguished status within the discipline of political geography, which focused on relationships among democracy, space and political power involved in election. This dominance decreased after 1980 and the thematic coverage of electoral geography became partially obsolete. While social geography began to deal with more conceptual questions, electoral geography became utterly positivist and sank into its own ‘moribund backwater’. Electoral geographers had to face the challenges of renewal. To understand electoral geography better, and to learn how to develop it in a contemporary Chinese context. The paper uses a tool for measurement based on the amounts of research papers-579 articles published mainly in English language journals after 1982-from Web of Science. We have teased the venation of electoral geography development from 1982 to 2018, summarized and analyzed the directions and trends of research on this field. From the perspective of a quantitative literature statistics method. Electoral geography mainly includes four dimensions:The geography of voting, Electoral systems, Redistricting and gerrymandering and ballot/seat conversion, which corresponds to four research paradigms of electoral geography in the western academia:Spatial Analysis, Geographic mapping, Political Economy, Post-Structuralism; the relative concepts and theories of electoral geography, which perhaps explains social movement and public issue, local politics and grassroots election, migration and community autonomous, global geopolitics and diplomatic policy decisions, as well it also facilitates comprehensive knowledge and theoretical system of Chinese political geography.
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