Election Results by Congressional Districts, OFFICIAL THREAD

[Jackson]

What's with the two 30% districts?

[freepcrusher]

What's with the two 30% districts?

write-in candidacies.

[freepcrusher]

What's with the two 30% districts?

sorry double post

[Fuzzybigfoot]

What's with the two 30% districts?

There's an interesting story about MS-4.  Just before the election the Republican incumbent Jon Hinson admitted to participating in homoerotic activities in greater D.C., which served as a massive bump for black independent Lester McLermore.  Hinson was still able to pull off a narrow win by reassuring voters that he had persued religious guidance; his new wife even stood by him and campaigned for his reelection as well. 

[Vasall des Midas]

There's far more than that to the story of Jon Hinson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hinson

They probably ought to make a biopic out of it one day.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

There's far more than that to the story of Jon Hinson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hinson

They probably ought to make a biopic out of it one day.

Indeed, that's a lot of drama. 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

What's with the two 30% districts?

There's an interesting story about MS-4.  Just before the election the Republican incumbent Jon Hinson admitted to participating in homoerotic activities in greater D.C., which served as a massive bump for black independent Lester McLermore.  Hinson was still able to pull off a narrow win by reassuring voters that he had persued religious guidance; his new wife even stood by him and campaigned for his reelection as well. 

And I'll get back to you on the others soon.

[RBH]

What's with the two 30% districts?

There's an interesting story about MS-4.  Just before the election the Republican incumbent Jon Hinson admitted to participating in homoerotic activities in greater D.C., which served as a massive bump for black independent Lester McLermore.  Hinson was still able to pull off a narrow win by reassuring voters that he had persued religious guidance; his new wife even stood by him and campaigned for his reelection as well. 

Both of Hinson's elections had the opposition split, although he had the majority in 1978

1978: Hinson 51.6%, John H. Stennis (son of the Senator) 26.4%, Evan Doss 19%, Other 3%
1980: Hinson 39%, Leslie McLemore (I) 29.8%, Britt Singletary (D) 29.4%, John Wayne McInerney 1.9%

Both Democratic primaries were a bit divided

1978 1st: Stennis 43.15%, James Disharoon 18.4%, Melvin Jennings 16.2%, Bob Mitchell 8.1%, Ken Johnson 7.4%, DA Tuttle 3.4%, E. Michael Marks 3.3%
1978 runoff: Stennis 59.1%, Disharoon 40.9%
1980 1st: Henry Kirksey 42.75%, Singletary 27.8%, WH Pyron 24.7%, WB Cagle 4.8%
1980 runoff: Singletary 56.7%, Kirksey 43.3%

Both times, the Dem / Dem+Ind vote was lower than the percentage of victory the Dem had in the runoff.

It'd be interesting to see how the county results went for these elections.

In 1976, MS4 went 54-44 for Ford, the most Republican district in the state. Then it went 54R-14D in 1978 with almost 32% going to mainly Evers.

So Hinson was running behind the averages before things got worse for him.

[pillage the village, trash the scene]

Request:
Districts where Anderson outperformed Perot '92

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Request:
Districts where Anderson outperformed Perot '92

I'll see what I can do. 

[Joe Republic]

What's with the two 30% districts?

There's an interesting story about MS-4.  Just before the election the Republican incumbent Jon Hinson admitted to participating in homoerotic activities in greater D.C., which served as a massive bump for black independent Lester McLermore.  Hinson was still able to pull off a narrow win by reassuring voters that he had persued religious guidance; his new wife even stood by him and campaigned for his reelection as well. 

And as for NM-2, incumbent Harold Runnels (D) was so popular by 1980 that the Republicans didn't bother fielding a candidate.  However, Runnels died in August 1980, and the Attorney General (D) decided that the Dems could replace him on the ballot, but the GOP weren't allowed to field a new candidate.  The backlash was two-fold: the Democrats picked the governor's nephew over Runnels' widow, who got pissed and ran as a write-in, thus splitting the Democratic vote; and public anger at the AG's stupid partisan decision, combined with Reagan's coattails, allowed write-in candidate Joe Skeen (R) to win with 38%.

[Χahar]

That decision doesn't seem unfair to me.

[Joe Republic]

The voters disagreed.

[Sibboleth]

Probably has to be seen in the context of sclerotic PRI control of the state.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Request:
Districts where Anderson outperformed Perot '92

I'll see what I can do. 

After looking at several maps, it looks as though Anderson only outperformed Perot in the current district of CA-8 and a maybe a few districts in NYC (Manhattan, mainly).  Not much to go on in order to make a map.  Sorry    I could probably do a Anderson vs. Perot '96 map if you wanted, Hermit.  Would that be okay?

[pillage the village, trash the scene]

Yes!

[Fuzzybigfoot]

From what I've gathered so far, Anderson performed much better in the cities with Perot doing well everywhere else, which isn't surprising at all. 

The map is still in progress.  BTW I'm actually just guessing the districts, since there's not exact correlating data. 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

I just got 9 Almanacs of American Politics for Christmas, so I'm going to be very, very busy once the holidays come to an end. 

[bgwah]

Why was this moved to the Congressional forum?

[RBH]

apparently Presidential Election Results = Congressional Elections

[Fuzzybigfoot]

I'm converting this thread into the official thread for past congressional elections, considering how much this thread shifted from presidential results b/CD.  The Presidential numbers/ maps will still be here for comparison btw.  


Sorry for the confusion. 

[Former Moderate]

Whoa, this thread is awesome, how the hell did I literally never notice it before?

[Fuzzybigfoot]

I'll have the 1976 house map up fairly soon. 


And welcome to the thread, Mr. Moderate. 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

95th House of Representatives  (1976)

[MilesC56]

As always, brilliant work!