ElectionsGuy
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Political Matrix E: 7.10, S: -7.65
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« on: August 17, 2014, 11:13:15 PM » |
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To show the relationship between the results, I decided to combine them. From 1872-1892, they vote about the same. From 1896-1948, Virginia votes more democratic than West Virginia. From 1952-2004 Virginia votes more republican than West Virginia. And now were back to Virginia being more democratic. They disagree on results 18 times throughout the history. 13 times out of 18, the Virginia side wins over the vote (1896, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1916, 1924, 1952, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, 2008), 5 out of 17 times West Virginia wins over the vote (1920, 1960, 1976, 1996, 2012). Its also important to note that for a period of time (I think about 1904 until 1960) West Virginia cast more votes than Virginia, despite having less population.
1872:
Ulysses Grant (R): 125,783 (50.8%) Horace Greeley (D): 121,179 (48.9%)
1876:
Samuel Tilden (D): 197,316 (58.7%) Rutherford Hayes (R): 137,515 (40.9%)
1880:
Winfield Hancock (D): 185,473 (57.2%) James Garfield (R): 129,776 (40.0%)
1884:
Grover Cleveland (D): 212,802 (51.0%) James Blaine (R): 202,452 (48.5%)
1888:
Grover Cleveland (D): 230,681 (49.8%) Benjamin Harrison (R): 228,570 (49.3%)
1892:
Grover Cleveland (D): 248,603 (53.7%) Benjamin Harrison (R): 193,390 (41.7%)
1896:
William Bryan (D): 249,188 (50.2%) William McKinley (R): 240,758 (48.5%)
1900:
William Bryan (D): 244,886 (50.5%) William McKinley (R): 235,598 (48.6%)
1904:
Alton Parker (D): 181,504 (49.0%) Theodore Roosevelt (R): 180,800 (48.8%)
1908:
William Bryan (D): 194,364 (49.2%) William Taft (R): 190,441 (48.2%)
1912:
Woodrow Wilson (D): 203,529 (50.2%) Theodore Roosevelt (Prog): 100,889 (24.9%) William Taft (R): 80,042 (19.7%)
1916:
Woodrow Wilson (D): 243,227 (54.8%) Charles Hughes (R): 192,480 (43.4%)
1920:
Warren Harding (R): 369,463 (49.9%) James Cox (D): 362,459 (48.9%)
1924:
John Davis (D): 396,948 (49.2%) Calvin Coolidge (R): 361,947 (44.8%) Robert LaFollette (Prog): 47,100 (5.8%)
1928:
Herbert Hoover (R): 540,160 (57.0%) Alfred Smith (D): 403,930 (42.6%)
1932:
Franklin Roosevelt (D): 609,103 (58.5%) Herbert Hoover (R): 420,368 (40.4%)
1936:
Franklin Roosevelt (D): 737,562 (63.3%) Alfred Landon (R): 423,694 (36.4%)
1940:
Franklin Roosevelt (D): 731,623 (60.2%) Wendell Willkie (R): 481,777 (39.7%)
1944:
Franklin Roosevelt (D): 635,053 (57.5%) Thomas Dewey (R): 468,062 (42.4%)
1948:
Harry Truman (D): 629,974 (53.9%) Thomas Dewey (R): 488,321 (41.8%)
1952:
Dwight Eisenhower (R): 769,007 (51.5%) Adlai Stevenson (D): 722,255 (48.4%)
1956:
Dwight Eisenhower (R): 835,756 (54.7%) Adlai Stevenson (D): 649,294 (42.5%)
1960:
John Kennedy (D): 804,113 (50.0%) Richard Nixon (R): 800,516 (49.7%)
1964:
Lyndon Johnson (D): 1,096,125 (59.8%) Barry Goldwater (R): 735,287 (40.1%)
1968:
Richard Nixon (R): 897,874 (42.4%) Hubert Humphrey (D): 816,478 (38.6%) George Wallace (AI): 394,393 (18.6%)
1972:
Richard Nixon (R): 1,473,457 (66.4%) George McGovern (D): 716,322 (32.3%)
1976:
Jimmy Carter (D): 1,249,810 (51.1%) Gerald Ford (R): 1,151,314 (47.0%)
1980:
Ronald Reagan (R): 1,323,815 (50.8%) Jimmy Carter (D): 1,119,636 (43.0%)
1984:
Ronald Reagan (R): 1,742,561 (60.5%) Walter Mondale (D): 1,124,375 (39.0%)
1988:
George H.W. Bush (R): 1,619,227 (56.9%) Michael Dukakis (D): 1,200,815 (42.2%)
1992:
George H.W. Bush (R): 1,392,491 (42.9%) Bill Clinton (D): 1,369,651 (42.2%) Ross Perot (I): 457,468 (14.1%)
1996:
Bill Clinton (D): 1,418,872 (46.5%) Bob Dole (R): 1,372,296 (44.9%) Ross Perot (I): 231,500 (7.6%)
2000:
George W. Bush (R): 1,773,965 (52.4%) Al Gore (D): 1,512,787 (44.7%)
2004:
George W. Bush (R): 2,140,737 (54.1%) John Kerry (D): 1,781,283 (45.0%)
2008:
Barack Obama (D): 2,263,389 (51.0%) John McCain (R): 2,122,471 (47.8%)
2012:
Mitt Romney (R): 2,240,177 (49.5%) Barack Obama (D): 2,210,089 (48.8%)
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