2014 US Gubernatorial Election Results

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

According to CNN's "Election Center" only 80% of the total vote has been tallied in Vermont. Does anyone know if that's accurate? Is it guaranteed that Shumlin will end up having more votes than Milne?

That's not accurate. The New York Times and Google both have Vermont at 100% in. The Vermont Secretary of State's website is at 96.36%. Shumlin is ahead by about a percentage point.

[njwes]

How much (if any) of that PV difference is due to uncontested candidates?

In the case of the congressional vote at least, it's not due to any uncontested candidates; rather it's due to Republicans not having any geographically concentrated minority group that reflexively votes for them 9-1.

[Vega]

How does the legislature elect the Governor? Is it First Past the Post like citizens vote? The Democrats hold the majority in both houses, so Shumlin should win.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I think it's FPTP but I'm not sure. Shumlin is definitely going to win; even if the Republicans held the majority, tradition in Vermont is for the legislature to elect whoever won the plurality (although there are exceptions: 'The most recent example of the General Assembly’s rejection of the plurality candidate occurred in 1976 when Republican T. Gary Buckley, who had come in second in popular vote was elected by a three-vote margin in the General Assembly over the plurality winner, John Alden. In this case, the candidate who had forced the race into the General Assembly was Liberty Union candidate John Franco (to the left of both the Democrat and Republican), indicating a majority of the electorate would almost certainly have selected Alden instead of Buckley in a one-on-one or instant runoff election.'). A Democratic legislature elected Jim Douglas in 2002.

[jimrtex]

How does the legislature elect the Governor? Is it First Past the Post like citizens vote? The Democrats hold the majority in both houses, so Shumlin should win.

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My emphasis.

So the legal interpretation is that since no candidate received a majority of the popular vote, that no election occurred (election hear meaning an actual selection; rather than the process of making that selection by casting ballots, etc.), that the choice goes to the combined senate and house.

I suspect that in some instances the general assembly would fill constrained to respect the will of the people, but in other cases they could conjure up an argument that there was no definitive will of the people, and that they were fulfilling their duty by determining the final decision among the three candidates nominated by the people.

One could imagine if this provision were effect in Maine, LePage would not have been elected nor re-elected.

[ElectionsGuy]

Illinois outside Cook County (so far)

Rauner - 1,349,805 (60.5%)
Quinn - 787,105 (35.3%)
Grimm - 93,156 (4.2%)

[Bacon King]

I'm on vacation in Gainesville FL right now visiting my cousin, at a party with his friends, they're all saying they voted to legalize weed but voted for the third party guy in the gov race because "both candidates sucked dick"; like literally ten people now have volunteered this by my prompt "so how bout them elections"

Guys Charlie Crust was a terrible candidate and prob why we lost

[SPC]

I'm on vacation in Gainesville FL right now visiting my cousin, at a party with his friends, they're all saying they voted to legalize weed but voted for the third party guy in the gov race because "both candidates sucked dick"; like literally ten people now have volunteered this by my prompt "so how bout them elections"

Guys Charlie Crust was a terrible candidate and prob why we lost

Florida voted for the one who only did so metaphorically.

[homelycooking]

Newtown had the largest swing to Malloy at almost 18%. Several towns' unofficial totals from the SoTS are incorrect (Woodbury, Avon, Colchester and Watertown in particular), so this map is not authoritative. Election results reporting in CT is still very much a 20th century affair.

Very few towns changed hands.

Foley to Malloy: Lyme, East Lyme, Derby, Danbury, Waterford
Malloy to Foley: Chaplin

[Panda Express]

Hickenlooper now winning by 3% aww yeah

[Miles]

Anyone know what was up with Monroe County, OH? FitzGerald carried it 52/44 but Obama lost it by about the same margin.

[IceSpear]

Anyone know what was up with Monroe County, OH? FitzGerald carried it 52/44 but Obama lost it by about the same margin.

Apparently Kasich screwed over a lot of the workers there. If only all voters had as long of a memory as they apparently do.

[RI]

[Matty]

Are those..... are those red counties...... in....in.....OKLAHOMA??!! THE END IS NIGH

[Nichlemn]

Uncannily similar to the Presidential results. Usually for these sorts of maps there are a number of glaring state boundaries when you cross from a state with a popular candidate of one party goes to a popular candidate of the other. But other than closely looking at the shades of blue between say, Iowa and Minnesota, that doesn't exist here. A lot of this because there were no large overperfomances of the Presidential result in ways that flipped a bunch of counties (no Mike Beebes, for instance).

[Nhoj]

Are those..... are those red counties...... in....in.....OKLAHOMA??!! THE END IS NIGH

Nah fallin lost counties in 2010 too. Of course they were completely different counties but still.
The ones she lost this year mostly seem to be ones that have traditional democratic strength. Though why Caddo flipped this year and not in 2010 when the democrat won the four counties south of it I have no idea.

[SNJ1985]

I'm highly pleased about the fact that Abbott beat Davis by 20 points.

[Lief 🗽]

Hickenlooper now winning by 3% aww yeah

Looks like Beauprez got Bucked!

[Kraxner]

Hickenlooper now winning by 3% aww yeah

Looks like Beauprez got Bucked!

Beauprez talking about how colorado should reconsider the marijuana legalization really put independents that voted for gardner to split their tickets for hickenlooper.


Thr amount of votes hickenlooper and gardner got were near identical.

http://www.cnn.com/election/2014/results/state/CO/senate

http://www.cnn.com/election/2014/results/state/CO/governor


Exit polls tab has Gardner leading with independents 50-42, and Hickenlooper leading independents 49-42.


Im very confident in saying had the gun control bill not happen than hickenlooper would of had double the margin and might of had the coattails to save Udall.


Also hickenlooper apologized for the guncontrol bill and said he disliked portions of obamacare, and made efforts to reconnect with hostile rural residents by doing things like this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeT86_e89yU

A reverse mirror of what Bill Clinton did with minority audiences and the saxophone.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I'm on vacation in Gainesville FL right now visiting my cousin, at a party with his friends, they're all saying they voted to legalize weed but voted for the third party guy in the gov race because "both candidates sucked dick"; like literally ten people now have volunteered this by my prompt "so how bout them elections"

Guys Charlie Crust was a terrible candidate and prob why we lost

I have heard that exact quote everyday for six solid weeks.

[Vega]

I always thought the hick' would pull it out.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

A reverse mirror of what Bill Clinton did with minority audiences and the saxophone.

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[Kraxner]

A reverse mirror of what Bill Clinton did with minority audiences and the saxophone.

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Search up Clinton Saxophone on youtube, he played it on a black talkshow and it was reported all over and his popularity among minorities went up.

Im probably exaggerating about hickenlooper with the banjo, but hickenlooper was trailing badly among rural Coloradans and playing the banjo was an attempt to connect with them despite pissing them off with gun control.

http://www.9news.com/story/entertainment/2014/07/17/governor-surprises-crowd-red-rocks/12771231/

I always thought the hick' would pull it out.

He actually got 50,000 votes than he did in 2010, it would be a wonder if he reaches up to one million votes when he has 977,000 right now.

If it wasnt for gun control his margin would of went from 3% to 6-9% and without it being a republican wave year it might of even went to double digits.

[KCDem]

Colorado update:

John Hickenlooper     984,741   49.20%
Bob Beauprez            922,400   46.09%

...margin of 3.11 and growing...

Will Hickenlooper get to 50%?

Seems like there are about 160,000 ballots left to count...

[IceSpear]

Looks like Beauprez ended up being...