Shelby County, TN 2000 Precinct Map

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Now.. if a few thousand of you would do this for your county, we would have our national precinct map

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

If you could find one word to describe Shelby Co... Polarized is it!

This is a map (with 2002 rather than 2000 precincts) of African-American population in the county (more Cyan=more AA)  Notice the similarities




 

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Thanks -- It would be possible for me to do a statewide precinct map for the 2000 results... I've got the 2000 precinct maps for each county but the results on the TNEC website are broken down by precinct with Early Voting separated out.  I'd have to get the results with Early Voting included in each precinct total for it to be more accurate.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

You are also right that it is depressing... as Bush lost Shelby Co. in 2000

Excellent maps!
Depressing, but very informative

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Al,

This is nothing!  In state/federal elections, you'll find a few whites (see the midtown area) who will vote Democrat.  In county elections, its totally polarized.

Dave,

Yes - I have printouts from the Shelby Co. Election Commission with combined (E-day, EV, and Absentee) data for this race as well as the 2002 Senate and Gubenatorial races.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I found a 2000 GIS precinct map for Suffolk but.... DAMN there are a lot of precincts!!!

I'd be happy to do Suffolk county, my home county, but I do not know where to find the precinct data or the precinct map for Suffolk.  Can anyone help?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

You have to know a little about GIS in order to use this:

You can download Tiger line data in shapefile format from
http://arcdata.esri.com/data/tiger2000/tiger_download.cfm

You choose the state, then the county, then choose to download the voting districts 2000 layer.  That will give you a zip file and inside that zip file is a .shp (shapefile, the map itself), a .dbf(database with info corresponding to the shapefile) and another file that you just need to put with the other two.

Put these three files into a folder and you can open the shp file with ArcExplorer - http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html

You can go into the dbf file with Excel and add a field for each candidate and then put the results in for each precinct.  You can then open up the SHP file and use the legend to view your data on the maps.

Where do you get all these maps from?