1984 Presidential Election (by congressional district)

[minionofmidas]

Wow, so NYC pioneered ridiculously-shaped districts?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Wow, so NYC pioneered ridiculously-shaped districts?

There were some like it - though not so bad - in the sixties as well, I think. I used to have a photocopy, though that would have been about four years ago; lost now. Never did get round to asking someone to scan it for me. bah.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Not the prettiest map I've ever made, but fuctional enough...

[Fuzzybigfoot]

New York (Part #1)



Special thanks to Sibboleth and Джонни Пять Тузов for providing me the congressional maps for NYC!  




Anyways, Mondale won all but a few C.D.'s in the city of New York itself.  Mondale's two best showings  were in the 12th Congressional District (part of Brooklyn, went 85%-14% for Mondale), the 16th C.D. (Harlem, Manhattan, went 84%-16 for Mondale.  This C.D. has been represented by Charles B. Rangel, for 40 years.  Mr. Rangel is currently under legal fire for fraud) and the  18th District (South Bronx, went 81%-19% for Mondale).

The best Reagan district was the 14th (Staten Island and part of Brooklyn, which gave Reagan 66% of the vote).  

It's interesting to note the 19th district, which is almost entirely in the Bronx and gave Reagan 52% of the vote, is also just North of the 18th (which was Mondale's third best district in the state, as shown above).  A very interesting contrast.


Another notable district is the 15th District (east Manhattan).  It is one of the few, if not, the only Republican Represented District in the House of Representatives which gave it's votes to Mondale in the presidential election (and by a huge 60%-39% spread!).





Finally, Mondale ended up capturing 61% of the vote in New York City, compared to Reagan, who got 38% (most likely because of his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, who was a favorite daughter candidate from New York State).  

[Linus Van Pelt]

Haha, wow. Times have changed in certain parts of the city.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

New York  (Part #2, whole map)






And here is the final map.  

The only other district Mondale won outside New York City was the 33rd, which contained the city of Buffalo and some of it's suburbs.  Mondale carried 63% of the vote there.  


The 23rd district (Albany and some surrounding suburbs) was somewhat close, giving Reagan only a 6% edge.

In the 32nd district (Niagara Falls, part of Rochester ), Reagan had about a 10% advantage over Mondale.  

In the 20th District (all in Winchester county, directly North of NYC), Reagan had a 12% advantage.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Oregon is up next. 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Oregon



Mondale carried the Third Congressional District (most of Portland and some suburbs) by a 6% margin.


He came within about 8% of Reagan in the 4th Congressional District (which includes Eugene, as well as many of it's neighboring counties).  

[nclib]

What are the other NYC Reagan districts like?

[Fuzzybigfoot]

What are the other NYC Reagan districts like?

The other NYC district that went to Reagan was the 9th (North Western Queens), with a 14% margin of victory. 

The other two are stated in part 1. 

[minionofmidas]

Eugene is not the capital of Oregon. And it's Westchester, not Winchester.

Surprised at northwest vs northeast Queens. Not what I would have guessed.

[Antonio the Sixth]

That's really great.

[Linus Van Pelt]

The district in inner Queens that Mondale lost was... (!) Geraldine Ferraro's district.

The two Mondale districts in northeast Queens were represented at the time by Gary Ackerman and Jim Scheuer, the latter of whom was a very liberal (and very pro-Israel) Vietnam War opponent and pre-Roe pro-choicer.

This should tell you what you need to know about the demographics of who stayed with Mondale, and who didn't.

[Hash]

What's that Reagan district in the Bronx (CD-19) like?

[Linus Van Pelt]

What's that Reagan district in the Bronx (CD-19) like?

Lots of Italians.

I realize I wasn't clear about this in the earlier post mentioning Ferraro, but that western Queens district wasn't overwhelmingly Italian, it had a lot of other white Catholics as well (Irish, Polish, etc.)

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Eugene is not the capital of Oregon. And it's Westchester, not Winchester.

Surprised at northwest vs northeast Queens. Not what I would have guessed.

Whoops, I always get it mixed up with Salem.  My bad.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

What's that Reagan district in the Bronx (CD-19) like?

Lots of Italians.

I realize I wasn't clear about this in the earlier post mentioning Ferraro, but that western Queens district wasn't overwhelmingly Italian, it had a lot of other white Catholics as well (Irish, Polish, etc.)

Yes, Catholics only gave Reagan an 8% edge around the country (10% less Republican than the national vote), but it was enough to determine the race.  

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Nebraska, Idaho, and South Carolina are next. 

[Badger]

Should I even bother to keep going?  I would have thought this would have been interesting to you guys, but maybe I was wrong...

It's great Fuzzy, but would you consider doing a more enjoyable year like 96?

[Liberalrocks]

I enjoy this thread and discussing landslide presidential election results as they fascinate me. Although I am no Reagan fan. The margins are intriguing. so please continue along these lines.

Thanks!

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Because I do not have the maps available for the Chicago and Detroit Metro areas, I will simply finish off with this map which shows how many CDs Mondale won in each state.




By the way, Mondale won 2 CDs in Detroit with over 80% of the vote.  


Illinois's second district was Mondale's best CD in the nation, giving Mondale a whopping 95% of the vote.    Maybe that was the Chicago machine at work?  Who knows.



Anyways, if you have any more questions, you can ask here or PM me for more data.

Thank you to all those who participated in this thread, weather it was asking questions or helping me with the project!     Perhaps I can get a 1972 thread up later.  

Again, most of my info came from The Almanac of American Politics 1988 by Michel Barone and Grant Ujifusa.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There is, or at least used to be, a blank map of Illinois CD's (1982-1992) online.

Edit: and, of course, there's Shilly's big map of 1988.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

There is, or at least used to be, a blank map of Illinois CD's (1982-1992) online.

Hmm, I'll look for that.  Thanks!

[freepcrusher]

PCMF, what was Reagan's margin in Ron Packard's district? Back then that was the 43rd district. Considering Reagan got 65% in San Diego County and 74% in Orange County, and that this district took in the most republican areas of both counties, this easily could have been his best district in the country.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

PCMF, what was Reagan's margin in Ron Packard's district? Back then that was the 43rd district. Considering Reagan got 65% in San Diego County and 74% in Orange County, and that this district took in the most republican areas of both counties, this easily could have been his best district in the country.

Oh yes, the district Packard won on a write-in campaign when a corrupt slimeball "bought" the GOP nomination in 1982. I wish we could succeed in doing the same thing with Jerry Lewis and Ken Calvert.

Edit: Looks like somewhere in the 70's.