Election Results by Congressional Districts, OFFICIAL THREAD

[nclib]

Goldwater won the 9th with 50.9%, or a margin of about 2600 votes. I don't think he would have come close in any of the others, though I suspect his next best would be the 4th, as it took in Davidson and kept Randoplh.

Thanks. The 4th went 53% for LBJ and the 10th went 52.6% for LBJ. It shouldn't be that difficult to find most of the Goldwater CD's since rural states back then didn't usually split counties.

[Fuzzy]

I'm going to do a map of the 102nd House of Representatives ('92 congressional elections).  I  think you guys will enjoy it.  



Edit:  Excuse me, I meant 103rd.

[MilesC56]

I'm going to do a map of the 102nd House of Representatives ('92 congressional elections).  I  think you guys will enjoy it. 

Awesome!

[Fuzzy]

103rd House of Representatives (1992)





Wow

[Fuzzy]

Questions?

[freepcrusher]

it seems the 93-94 map (103rd I believe) shows no real patterns. There are republicans and democrats scattered all across the country and no regionalism.

[RBH]

you mixed up KY5 and KY6 on that map

[MilesC56]

Ahh...TX was beautiful back then. It had a 21-9 Democratic delegation, today that's pretty much flipped.

[Fuzzy]

you mixed up KY5 and KY6 on that map

Thank you, it's been fixed. 

[Sibboleth]

I've seen maps of that election before, but it's still interesting. The power of electoral deference in America was once a remarkable thing; now gone forever, I suspect. Of course many of the districts held by the Democrats in '92 and subsequently lost were regained (and subsequently lost again; and maybe in a post-Obama world the pattern might repeat, at least in places) but not in the same way.

[Vasall des Midas]

lolutah

[Fuzzy]

Congressional districts where Perot came in second








Not too surprising.  

[freepcrusher]

how did Humphrey do in TX 20? According to my 74 almanac it said that he was getting around 70 percent in a lot of the neighborhoods in the older areas of San Antonio. Considering how bad Humphrey was demolished in the south, I'm surprised he could get that high a %.

[Fuzzy]

how did Humphrey do in TX 20? According to my 74 almanac it said that he was getting around 70 percent in a lot of the neighborhoods in the older areas of San Antonio. Considering how bad Humphrey was demolished in the south, I'm surprised he could get that high a %.

He got 71% of the vote there, due to the district's huge hispanic population.

[realisticidealist]

Yay! I'm finally done.

1952 Presidential Election:



1956 Presidential Election:



1960 Presidential Election (Data missing for some CDs):

[Thomas D]

Great maps. Thanks for the effort.

[Fuzzy]

Wow!  This is awesome work, realisticidealist!    

[Landslide Lyndon]

1)What's with the dotted line that traverses Colorado and Kansas?

2)What's up with those western Texas and Oklahoma districts that went for Ike in 1952 but switched to Stevenson four years later?

[Vasall des Midas]

1)What's with the dotted line that traverses Colorado and Kansas?

Magic of rightclick. Ordinary district boundaries.

[freepcrusher]

2)What's up with those western Texas and Oklahoma districts that went for Ike in 1952 but switched to Stevenson four years later?

Ezra Taft Benson. His policies pissed off a lot of farmers which is why Eisenhower underperformed in the plains states. This is also how George McGovern unseated an incumbent in 1956.

[TXMichael]

Texas 1952







lol at the simple boundaries, and Stevenson's performance in the southern part of the state.

Those boundaries are amazingly un-gerrymandered.  Bexar County, Dallas County, Harris County. 

[TXMichael]

Yay! I'm finally done.

1952 Presidential Election:



1956 Presidential Election:



1960 Presidential Election (Data missing for some CDs):

Look at those Texas districts.   I find it incredible that they follow county lines especially given how gerrymandered the state is now

[realisticidealist]

A lot of those districts wouldn't fly today simply because of the large population disparities required to keep some of those counties whole. Harris County, for example, had way more people in its district than it should have had.

[TXMichael]

A lot of those districts wouldn't fly today simply because of the large population disparities required to keep some of those counties whole. Harris County, for example, had way for people in its district than it should have had.

Well of course.  However that doesn't mean Travis County today should be split up between 4 or 5 districts when one district could easily fit entirely in the county.  Same with Tarrant County, I think there are 4 or 5 districts which go divide it up when two districts could fit inside the county.

Edit:  Don't want to get in a debate over redistricting here and take the chance of derailing this great thread.   Thanks for the maps of the '52, '56 and '60 elections

[Heimdal]

The difference between the Northeast and the South is especially interesting. In the early 1990s, the Democrats still held a majority of the Congressional districts in the South (it stayed that way until 1994). And the Republicans still hold a whole lot of their ancestral districts in Upstate New York, Eastern Connecticut, Massachusets and Maine (I think Olympia Snow represented Maine in the House back then).