The Local Elections Database Project team, a part of Harvard Kennedy School's class Programming and Data for Policymakers (DPI 691-M), is visualizing the representativeness of various electoral contests as documented in the American Local Government Elections database. We hope that the people engaged in making communities across the country more representative will find these displays illustrative and useful.
This website is a work in progress. We are continuing to add visualizations and data breakdowns over time. The first area we targeted was gender representation. In that area, we have two visualization sets available:
Gender Representation - County Executives
Gender Representation - County Legislators