Presidential Election Results by CD in Texas, 1984

[Fuzzybigfoot]

A pretty cool find!  


Info from the Almanac of American Politics, 1988 (which I found at the library).


Mondale, as you can see, only won 3 C.D.'s against Reagan, a total blowout for what used to be a Democratic leaning swing state.



His wins include:


15th CD:  54%-46%  (The largest of his wins it terms of land area, which you can probably figure out.  Covers much of Southern Texas, big Latino populations)

18th CD:  72%-28%  (Downtown Houston. African American vote very large)

20th CD:  59%-41%  (Downtown San Antonio, large Latino populations)






Please comment!  

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Any requests?

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Could you make a shaded map?

Sure!  I'll try to get you one soon.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Here it is:

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Mondale also came somewhat close to winning the district representing the minority precincts in Dallas (53% Reagan, 47% Mondale).   A 10% GOP shift from 1980, it was won by Carter 52% to 48%.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

How about Heimlich County?

I googled that county, and it told me it was a fictional county from "King of the Hill". 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

I'm surprised that Mondale did that well in CD 18. 72% is a big victory considering Reagan got 61% in Harris County. I'm guessing Reagan would have gotten 75-80 percent in Bill Archer's district.

I find that pretty interesting too.  It had a huge African American population.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Those CD lines look sooo much nicer than our current ones

Agreed, gerrymandering sucks. 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

What percent of the population in District 18 was black?

Also, what was Reagan's percent in District 3 and District 7? I'm guessing it had to have been close to 80 percent.

Correct, the 3rd gave Reagan 82% of the vote, and the 7th gave Reagan 83%.  

African Americans made up a plurality of the 18th, at 39%.  


And by the way, welcome to the forum. 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

LOL it's funny this thread is getting just as much or more attention than the 1992 P.E. by C.D. thread I put up, which has the Texas results for that year plus interesting states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Indiana....



Not trying to be an attention whore, I really wonder why. 

It's still all cool if you like this thread...