Election Results by Congressional Districts, OFFICIAL THREAD

[Fuzzy]

Should I continue?  I'm just doing this because I'm bored, so negative feedback won't hurt my feelings or anything. 

[memphis]

Should I continue?  I'm just doing this because I'm bored, so negative feedback won't hurt my feelings or anything. 

I'm enjoying the maps.

[freepcrusher]

did Carter crack 80 percent in Texas 18?

[Fuzzy]

did Carter crack 80 percent in Texas 18?

No, but he did break 70%.

[Californian Tony]

Should I continue?

Are you kidding ? Of course you should !

[Vasall des Midas]

Should I continue?  I'm just doing this because I'm bored, so negative feedback won't hurt my feelings or anything. 

*provides positive feedback in order not to hurt Mr Fuzzleton's feelings*

[Fuzzy]

Alright, I'll continue.   


Louisiana, 1968



What a strange looking map.  lol


and


Indiana, 1996

[Jackson]

How far back do the maps you have go?

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Few comments

. Its interesting how Ford got 60% of the vote in Indiana 2, yet Floyd Fithian managed to hold on to the district for the rest of the decade until 1982 when Indiana went down one seat and they combined his seat with Elwood Hillis. He then ran for the senate and gave Dick Lugar his toughest race of his career.

. Also, its interesting how Ford lost the Indianapolis district. Mondale won the district in 1984. Of course, I think the black community was split up between the 11th and 6th districts.

. As for Arizona, how did Ford win Morris Udall's district. Dukakis won it 55-43.

Lastly, what was Ford's best district?
I remember hearing he won Texas 3 something like 72-28. He probably won Texas 7 by a lot too.

Back in the 70's, Mark Udall's district didn't contain the Democrati parts of Phoenix, which really delivered for Dukakis in 1988.

Ford's best district was TX-7, which gave Ford 73% of the vote to Carter's 26%.

what district was the dem areas of Phoenix in back then?

On some of the wikipedia pages for congressional districts, it describes its changes over time. It does for Arizona. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%27s_1st_congressional_district

When AZ was first divided into two separate districts (rathern then electing both at-large) in the late 40's they put all of Maricopa in the first and then everything else into the second. When AZ began to vote Republican, GOP strength was centered in the Phoenix metro area, while Dem strength was everywhere else. Which fit the common 1950's -1970's political divide of Metro Republican versus rural Dem, in the west. During this period there was a lot of in-migration of midwestern Republicans, which I beleive you have mentioned somewhere, was first aimed at Phoenix (John Rhodes was born in KS). Realignment of rural voters (many of which were Southerners or descendents of such) moved the rural areas to the GOP while diversification of the in-migration made Phoenix less Republican. Hence why AZ-01 which was super GOP in the 1970's had become a marginal seat by 2000.

[Fuzzy]

How far back do the maps you have go?

1968. 

[freepcrusher]

the problem is that the almanac of american politics only goes back to 1972, so it only shows the results by CD to 1968. It would be cool to see what districts were so hardcore GOP that Goldwater won them.

If I had to guess the districts Goldwater won would be:
all 8 Alabama districts
Rhodes Arizona district
maybe Northwest Arkansas
James Utt and Bob Wilson's California district. Maybe an LA district or two
A few upstate Florida districts
most of the rural Georgia districts
Idaho 2
a few suburban chicago area seats
the Indiana district that took in the counties surrounding Indianapolis
maybe the old 5th district in Kentucky
all of Louisiana except the New Orleans district
all 5 Mississippi districts
Nebraska 3
The 6th and 1st districts in Oklahoma
a few South Carolina districts
the two eastern Tennessee districts
I know he lost all the Texas districts but under the 1966 map, I think he won the 3rd and 7th
maybe a district or two in downstate Virginia

[Fuzzy]

South Carolina, 1968





Kentucky, 1968

[Mr.Phips]

Few comments

. Its interesting how Ford got 60% of the vote in Indiana 2, yet Floyd Fithian managed to hold on to the district for the rest of the decade until 1982 when Indiana went down one seat and they combined his seat with Elwood Hillis. He then ran for the senate and gave Dick Lugar his toughest race of his career.

. Also, its interesting how Ford lost the Indianapolis district. Mondale won the district in 1984. Of course, I think the black community was split up between the 11th and 6th districts.

. As for Arizona, how did Ford win Morris Udall's district. Dukakis won it 55-43.

Lastly, what was Ford's best district?
I remember hearing he won Texas 3 something like 72-28. He probably won Texas 7 by a lot too.

Ford actually won the Indianapolis district 55%-45%.  It was gerrymandered by Republicans to contain the most Republican parts of Marion county.  By 1981, Republicans gave up and just drew the district to be a Dem vote sink. 

[freepcrusher]

sorry i meant to say he won instead of lost. BTW, you know who was the benefactor from the Andy Jacobs vote sink district, Dan Blowhard Burton.

[Fuzzy]

Bump




Requests? 

[izixs]

Iowa, 1988 and 1992?

[Californian Tony]

I may ask too much, but I'd really love to see some national CD maps, if you can do them.

[freepcrusher]

Bump




Requests? 

California 1968

[Senator Ben]

Virginia 1968 would be awesome

[Fuzzy]

3 for the price of 1!   



North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia 1968

[Sibboleth]

1968 was (is?) an especially fascinating election, so, anything from that...

[Fuzzy]

I forgot, actually Dave already has Iowa on file.  


Iowa 1988:



And Iowa 1992:

[Landslide Lyndon]

I thought the Virginia district next to the Kentucky border was full with conservative labor Democrats. How come Nixon won it so decisively?

[Vasall des Midas]

Only parts of it, but yeah, the 1968 results there require an explanation.

Compare state maps by year, 1960, 68, 76, 80. Sticks out like a sore thumb.

[Californian Tony]

I may ask too much, but I'd really love to see some national CD maps, if you can do them.