If you take a look at David Leip's file with county-level data for the 2016 presidential election, you will see a tab labeled "statistics." Inside, you will a histogram titled "number of counties by %vote." (Very useful - thank you David!) The histogram for 2016 shows very skewed curves for the republican and democrat vote shares, with a low average vote for Clinton and a high average share for Trump.
When I looked at the same graph for the 1996 election, I did not see any skewing at all.
So - does anyone know - are the 2016 skewed vote share distributions unique, rare, or common?
If they are rare or common, could you kindly direct my attention to the relevant election years?
Please kindly also alert me at
ffa.democracy@gmail.comBest regards,
- Doug
