first electoral map? (1880 Presidential by county)

[Mr. Morden]

http://mischiefsoffaction.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/the-first-ever-electoral-map.html

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[Snowstalker Mk. II]

A lot more Republican counties in the South than I'd have expected.

[TDAS04]

A lot more Republican counties in the South than I'd have expected.

Some of those may have been due to the fact that many blacks could still vote.  Reconstruction had ended, but the white Democrats had not been able to completely suppress the black vote yet, and some blacks still held political office into the 1890s.

One curiosity about that map is that it shows results from places that had not become states yet.  Maybe people in the territories voted, but those votes didn't count in determining electoral votes.  It is interesting how solidly Republican the Utah Territory looks.

[DINGO Joe]

A lot more Republican counties in the South than I'd have expected.

Some of those may have been due to the fact that many blacks could still vote.  Reconstruction had ended, but the white Democrats had not been able to completely suppress the black vote yet, and some blacks still held political office into the 1890s.

One curiosity about that map is that it shows results from places that had not become states yet.  Maybe people in the territories voted, but those votes didn't count in determining electoral votes.  It is interesting how solidly Republican the Utah Territory looks.

It's a mix of the mountain Republicans, German counties (TX and maybe AL), counties that they hadn't taken the black vote away yet, and rare random local exception--Wilmington, NC and sugar parishes in Louisiana had their own histories for voting R.

As for territories, the map key says they used the vote for territory representative elections as a proxy for party support.


Very cool map.

[Indy Texas]

I don't even want to imagine how long it took to make such a map back then. They'd have to request voting results from all the states. Many of those states might not have broken down the votes by county, in which case you would have had to write to the clerk in every county to request vote totals.

I didn't think Utah was so heavily Republican back then; I thought it used to be pretty evenly split between the parties up until the mid 20th century.

[Kitteh]

I didn't think Utah was so heavily Republican back then; I thought it used to be pretty evenly split between the parties up until the mid 20th century.

My understanding is that Mormons voted for whoever the Church told them to, which means they voted solidly as a bloc but not for any particular party, and non-Mormons voted strongly Democrat as they have throughout the entire history of Utah until today.

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How did they get results for the territories?

Southern LA has a county that is different from here, but it looks mostly the same.

[PulaskiSkywayDriver]

Sussex County NJ votes Democratic wow!

[Miles]

This is pretty neat:

[DINGO Joe]

That map was put together by Dave's Great-Great Grandfather Jebediah Obediah Liep.  Back then, the Atlas was 10 cents an issue and besides maps the Atlas had pulp Western stories like "Gunfight at Precinct 303" and the popular but controversial slice of life series by BushIndianTerritory.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

very cool - they even got the colors right!
is this from an Atlas?

[RI]

Here's a link that also has similar maps for 1884 and 1888.

[Mr. Morden]

You're six months late on this:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=173642.0

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

You're six months late on this:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=173642.0

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