1938 CT Governor's race map (Socialist wins 26%)

[RBH]

The Socialist was Bridgeport Mayor Jasper McLevy (who ran for governor 11 times during his 12 terms as Mayor, this being his 3rd time and his best showing, his second best was 6.96% in 1934)

here's the map



Baldwin (R) 230237 - 36%
Cross (D) 227549 - 36%
McLevy (S) 166253 - 26%
Borden (SL) 7271 - 1%
Allen (Labor) 773 - 0.1%

and the map of how McLevy did



McLevy won Bridgeport and towns around it, Waterbury and towns around it, and towns around Hartford. While not doing very well in New Haven or rural Connecticut.

Results: http://www.ct.gov/sots/lib/sots/electionservices/statementofvote_pdfs/1938_sov.pdf

He ran over 50K votes ahead of the rest of the Socialist ticket.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Nice work!    Amazing there's  town data from that long ago. 

[homelycooking]

Nice work!    Amazing there's  town data from that long ago. 

I have town data from CT from as far back as 1848, if you're interested in it.

[The Economist]

How did you get the data to do this and how do you have the data from 1848 for Connecticut elections by town? That's pretty detailed!

[cinyc]

How did you get the data to do this and how do you have the data from 1848 for Connecticut elections by town? That's pretty detailed!

Towns run elections in New England, so as long as the records are available, the town data should be, too.  It's the equivalent of finding old county results in the rest of the country.

[homelycooking]

How did you get the data to do this and how do you have the data from 1848 for Connecticut elections by town? That's pretty detailed!

Towns run elections in New England, so as long as the records are available, the town data should be, too.  It's the equivalent of finding old county results in the rest of the country.

Not quite. The CT Secretary of the State has data going back only until 1922: I have earlier results because I am a student at the University of Connecticut. In the basement of the Homer Babbidge library there are original copies of election reports from at least 1848.

[AndrewTX]

How did you get the data to do this and how do you have the data from 1848 for Connecticut elections by town? That's pretty detailed!

Towns run elections in New England, so as long as the records are available, the town data should be, too.  It's the equivalent of finding old county results in the rest of the country.

Not quite. The CT Secretary of the State has data going back only until 1922: I have earlier results because I am a student at the University of Connecticut. In the basement of the Homer Babbidge library there are original copies of election reports from at least 1848.

lol storrs.

[The Economist]

That's pretty impressive - these old records are a gold mine. I'd love to find some for my state (Maryland) -- somewhere, we probably have old records also dating to the 19th century.

[RI]

How did you get the data to do this and how do you have the data from 1848 for Connecticut elections by town? That's pretty detailed!

Towns run elections in New England, so as long as the records are available, the town data should be, too.  It's the equivalent of finding old county results in the rest of the country.

Not quite. The CT Secretary of the State has data going back only until 1922: I have earlier results because I am a student at the University of Connecticut. In the basement of the Homer Babbidge library there are original copies of election reports from at least 1848.

But no presidential primary results.

[homelycooking]

lol storrs.

Whatever happens in Storrs stays in Storrs...but, then again, nothing ever really happens in Storrs.

But no presidential primary results.

Sadly, no. I'd have to go grubbing town-by-town for that (which I am already doing in New York).

[cinyc]

How did you get the data to do this and how do you have the data from 1848 for Connecticut elections by town? That's pretty detailed!

Towns run elections in New England, so as long as the records are available, the town data should be, too.  It's the equivalent of finding old county results in the rest of the country.

Not quite. The CT Secretary of the State has data going back only until 1922: I have earlier results because I am a student at the University of Connecticut. In the basement of the Homer Babbidge library there are original copies of election reports from at least 1848.

But no presidential primary results.

How far back did Connecticut hold primaries?  Most states didn't really start holding them until 1972, though some states have held them since the 1910s.

[AndrewTX]

lol storrs.

Whatever happens in Storrs stays in Storrs...but, then again, nothing ever really happens in Storrs.

True..which is why Stamford was never better.

[RI]

How did you get the data to do this and how do you have the data from 1848 for Connecticut elections by town? That's pretty detailed!

Towns run elections in New England, so as long as the records are available, the town data should be, too.  It's the equivalent of finding old county results in the rest of the country.

Not quite. The CT Secretary of the State has data going back only until 1922: I have earlier results because I am a student at the University of Connecticut. In the basement of the Homer Babbidge library there are original copies of election reports from at least 1848.

But no presidential primary results.

How far back did Connecticut hold primaries?  Most states didn't really start holding them until 1972, though some states have held them since the 1910s.

They didn't hold that many. They only started in 1980, but so far I've had no luck whatsoever in getting ahold of the results (other than statewide ones) for 1980-1996. If someone could help with this, I'm sure that Dave and I would appreciate it.

They did hold an interesting and very close caucus in 1976 as well, but I doubt anyone could find results for that.

[Lephead]

Glad you are doing this.  I have done some stuff for Washington and Montana back into prestate.  I think the 1896 precinct vote for President and Congress I made for Washington was probably the first time it was ever like that.  Unfortunately it is impossible to do 1892 Washington for President.

[California8429]

Nice work!    Amazing there's  town data from that long ago. 

I have town data from CT from as far back as 1848, if you're interested in it.

Would you happen to have Bristol's mayoral election history?

[homelycooking]

2009
Arthur WARD (D) 5079 (57.36%)
Mary ALFORD (R) 3323 (37.53%)
Gary LAWTON (I) 369 (4.17%)
Blank/Write in 84 (0.95%)
Total Votes 8855 (turnout 25.9%)

2007
Arthur WARD (D) 5918 (51.20%)
Ken JOHNSON (R) 5554 (48.05%)
Blank/Write in 86 (0.74%)
Total Votes 11558 (turnout 36.4%)

2005
William STORTZ (R) 7135 (57.98%)
Gerald COUTURE (D) 4949 (40.22%)
Blank/Write in 221 (1.80%)
Total Votes 12305 (turnout 38.4%)

2003
Gerald COUTURE (D) 6204 (51.79%)
William STORTZ (R) 5550 (46.33%)
Blank/Write in 225 (1.88%)
Total Votes 11979 (turnout 40.6%)

2001
Frank NICASTRO Sr. 8144 (74.62%)
Richard PRINDLE 2630 (24.10%)
Blank/Write in 140 (1.28%)
Total Votes 10914 (turnout 36.5%)

1999
Frank NICASTRO Sr. 7729 (59.89%)
Michael WERNER 5177 (40.11%)

I will check the library to see if there are results from before 1999. Failing that, I'll e-mail the SOTS's office to request past municipal elections results.

[minionofmidas]

Wait... how did the Democrat poll 38% with that map? Came second in most of the Socialist-voting places?

Also, what made that election special that McLevy could break through outside of Bridgeport? Did the other two candidates both suck royall dogballs?

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

Anyone know where I could find old MA Data? I'm dying for some.

William Francis Galvin has literally zilch on his site... glad I didn't vote for him.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Maybe someone could make a what-if scenario based on this. This mayor wins the governorship, and then a couple years down the road he starts a new Progressive movement or something.

[homelycooking]

Anyone know where I could find old MA Data? I'm dying for some.

William Francis Galvin has literally zilch on his site... glad I didn't vote for him.

I tried e-mailing his office, and I got a vague answer that led me to believe either that the data is not available or it is very expensive. Makes me appreciate Susan Bysiewicz's work in my home state.

[RI]

Anyone know where I could find old MA Data? I'm dying for some.

William Francis Galvin has literally zilch on his site... glad I didn't vote for him.

Have you tried looking here?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Funny thing is that according to Wikipedia, McLevy actually balanced the budget and lowered taxes. Now that's my kind of socialist.

[RI]

Funny thing is that according to Wikipedia, McLevy actually balanced the budget and lowered taxes. Now that's my kind of socialist.

Well, he pretty much was a Socialist in name only. The national party didn't care for him too much...

[Хahar 🤔]

Funny thing is that according to Wikipedia, McLevy actually balanced the budget and lowered taxes. Now that's my kind of socialist.

There's nothing particularly un-socialist about a balanced budget, but McLevy was AFAIK an evolutionary socialist at any rate.

[Lephead]

That's pretty impressive - these old records are a gold mine. I'd love to find some for my state (Maryland) -- somewhere, we probably have old records also dating to the 19th century.

I don 't know if you have found in my scribd account, but I posted precinct results for Washington County from 1860 and 1864.