| Sumario: | In agreement with our “globalizing” era —which gives value to personal freedom in detriment of the collective belongings and identities—, the great majority of the theoretical-methodological focus of the political-electoral behaviours, which is centered today on the analysis of the individuals. Nonetheless, the vote is also a social and interactive conduct, as well as collective and territorialized. Today, more than ever, citizens make the choice to elect their ruling class, but we neither choose the conditions nor the places in which such elections are made. Among other important variables, the space constitutes a fundamental dimension of suffrage. To study this, geography and cartography give us powerful instruments that allow us to focus and explore the vote in the most diverse levels and scales of the territorial organization. In this contribution we depart from an operative and situated definition of the electoral geography, and we invite readers to reflect about methodological possibilities of exploratory analysis of spatial data, we warn readers about the limitations and traps of cartography and advocate for the multidimensional study of the vote.
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