# The Rise of the Far Right (2025)
The rise of the far right and how votes have evolved in Switzerland and Europe
VisualDon is a data storytelling project I made with my friend Loïc Peyramaure for the Data Visualisation course at HEIG-VD. The brief: pick a dataset, find a story in it and design an interactive way to tell it.
We chose to trace how votes have evolved in Switzerland and across Europe over the years. The narrative thread is the electoral rise of the far right, but the site also lets you follow, election after election, how votes shifted from one country to another.
It all started with the data. We consolidated election results from ParlGov and party positions from the Manifesto Project, then cleaned and merged the raw CSV files into a single dataset, documenting its methodological biases along the way. We then set these trends against major socio-political events, so the curves read in their historical context rather than in isolation.
The site is built in JavaScript with Vite and D3. Interactive charts and GeoJSON maps guide the reader step by step.
The project received a grade of 6, the highest in the Swiss system.