RBH's Maps (Now, Atlas Election Entry Script & County Map Generation)

[Vasall des Midas]

I have no idea how I managed this. but it should be deleted.

Hah!

Why is Multnomah showing up in gray when the data have it going for the Democrat? (And yes, I know everything else is wrong too.)

[RBH]

I have no idea how I managed this. but it should be deleted.

Commas in the file, probably.

As for future results, the NY Gov 1994 results should be a lot of fun. Two hints here.

Cuomo wins NYC big (70/28), Pataki wins the rest of the state big (57/35)

The 1990 NY Gov results should be interesting in map form.

Cuomo won every county except the following in 1990.

Rinfret counties: Allegany, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Essex, Herkimer, Lewis, Orleans, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, Yates
London counties: Cayuga, Greene, Hamilton, Oswego, Wyoming

And the CQ database county results didn't include anything from Jefferson or Niagara counties. Preventing a map.

[RBH]

As for 1986 (where Cuomo won 65/32): O'Rourke won Delaware, Greene, Hamilton, Sullivan, and Washington Counties.

Spitzer won 4 of those counties.

[Sibboleth]

As for future results, the NY Gov 1994 results should be a lot of fun. Two hints here.

Cuomo wins NYC big (70/28), Pataki wins the rest of the state big (57/35)

Dave has that up already:

[Sibboleth]

RBH posted 1970 on Atlas some time ago:

Cool

[Dave Leip]

I have no idea how I managed this. but it should be deleted.

Done - I actually forgot to remind you that the 1990 and 1994 Gubernatorial and Senatorial races in Oregon are already done, just not uploaded - So I removed those contests.
Thanks again for all the great work!

State election results index pages (such as WA have been updated to include other election types (primary, runoff, etc.) and cleaned up so that the initiative and referendum results are below the office results.

[Grad Students are the Worst]

I have no idea how I managed this. but it should be deleted.

Commas in the file, probably.

Yeah, but it took impressive stupidity on my part to do that AND upload it as the 1990 Senate special election instead of 1994 General AFTER I had uploaded it correctly.  I don't even remember doing it. 

Thanks, Dave.

[bgwah]

Hey Dave,

I've come across 1776-1860 gubernatorial results by county and was considering submitting the data. However, I was wondering if there would be any problems with submitting numbers for such old elections. Particularly, I was wondering if there would be a problem with county boundaries arising from the non-existance of many counties so long ago. For a state like Oregon, most of its counties were not yet in existance by 1860. Would they show up as grey? I know that for older presidential results you seemed to have fixed this problem, showing the county boundaries as they were during the election.

Just wanted to know before I tried.

Thanks.

[Dave Leip]

Hi Jesus!
Very cool.  A couple of points:
1. please enter only official data (I prefer not to add data for another compilation for two reasons -
a. often candidates are omitted or aggregated and b. official sources have more credibility.)

2. I haven't really started looking at county boundaries for such old elections and I recommend holding off for the time being - there is quite a bit of work to understand the boundary changes, create modified maps, update the shapes database, etc.  Currently, county boundary changes are supported as follows:
Most Ohio Valley States and Northeastern states' county boundaries are unchanged for some time, check the animated county gif for an approximate idea for how far back you can go before boundaries change in a given state.

Montana: all since statehood on Presidential years (boundary changes in between may not be supported)
Wyoming: all since 1904 on Presidential years
Kansas: all since 1888
Arizona: all since statehood
California: all since 1892 on Presidential years
Michigan: all since 1884 on Presidential years
Colorado: Changes to Denver in 1988 and Broomfield in 2002
Maine: Changes to Cumberland/Oxford County in 1978
New Mexico: Change in 1984
South Dakota: back to 1920
Virginia: back to 1921
Wisconsin: Change in 1964

[bgwah]

Hi Jesus!
Very cool.  A couple of points:
1. please enter only official data (I prefer not to add data for another compilation for two reasons -
a. often candidates are omitted or aggregated and b. official sources have more credibility.)

2. I haven't really started looking at county boundaries for such old elections and I recommend holding off for the time being - there is quite a bit of work to understand the boundary changes, create modified maps, update the shapes database, etc.  Currently, county boundary changes are supported as follows:
Most Ohio Valley States and Northeastern states' county boundaries are unchanged for some time, check the animated county gif for an approximate idea for how far back you can go before boundaries change in a given state.

Montana: all since statehood on Presidential years (boundary changes in between may not be supported)
Wyoming: all since 1904 on Presidential years
Kansas: all since 1888
Arizona: all since statehood
California: all since 1892 on Presidential years
Michigan: all since 1884 on Presidential years
Colorado: Changes to Denver in 1988 and Broomfield in 2002
Maine: Changes to Cumberland/Oxford County in 1978
New Mexico: Change in 1984
South Dakota: back to 1920
Virginia: back to 1921
Wisconsin: Change in 1964

Oh, well its just a book at the library so if its not accurate enough I won't bother.

[RBH]

Yeah, I figure the county changes may be one thing slowing down Texas maps too.

That, and the claim of no results for El Paso in 1924.

[Vasall des Midas]

New Mexico: Change in 1984

What about Los Alamos in the 40s? The last changes before that were in the first quarter of the century.

[bgwah]

I looked at the book today. It does seem to include minor candidates that received less than 1% of the vote and give its sources which are often official... If you don't want me to use it though, I won't.

Alcon stayed up until 1PM (in the afternoon!) that one night and did all of Washington so I'm just looking for something else to do...

[Dave Leip]

New Mexico: Change in 1984

What about Los Alamos in the 40s? The last changes before that were in the first quarter of the century.

Vielen Dank!  New Mexico boundary changes weren't accounted for in either the shapes database or the mapgen script.  I've added both sets of information, so New Mexico is now complete back to statehood - with a caveat:
Boundary between Socorro/Sierra and Chaves/Roosevelt is different from a couple of different sources in the 1920s.  Anyone with traceable information on the evolution of these two boundaries?
Thanks
Dave

[Dave Leip]

I looked at the book today. It does seem to include minor candidates that received less than 1% of the vote and give its sources which are often official... If you don't want me to use it though, I won't.

Alcon stayed up until 1PM (in the afternoon!) that one night and did all of Washington so I'm just looking for something else to do...

Wow.  I'll have to give the data a double-check... I know what sleep-deprivation can do... but that is some passion!

How about working the WA border states?  Idaho is very easy as the SOS already has data back to the early 90s in spreadsheets.  Montana also has official abstracts posted (I downloaded the spreadhseets a while ago - but they don't seem to be available anymore, so I posted them here.  I also obtained 1984, 1988, and 1992 OR Abstracts in pdf form also here.  These abstracts are scans and therfore require typing.

[Grad Students are the Worst]

Dave,

Thanks, but Montana appears to be undownloadable (no permissions).  I'll work on Oregon some more.

[Dave Leip]

That was odd - I've changed permissions to allow all read.  I also posted three pdf versions of the Colorado Official Abstracts that I dug up (1997-99, 2001-02, and 2003-04).
Thanks,
Dave

[Grad Students are the Worst]

Thanks Dave.

Tied results are still showing up as empty, by the way.    I'm not sure if that's been reported yet...

Montana is going great - the spreadsheet format really helps.

[Grad Students are the Worst]

I'm thinking that 1996 initiative results for Owyhee County, Idaho (here and here) may have been reversed...will try to contact Idaho on Monday Tuesday.

[RBH]

You mean that Owyhee County doesn't like Bears that much?

[Grad Students are the Worst]

You mean that Owyhee County doesn't like Bears that much?

No, they love bears and the environment.

And are the only county to buck every other voting trend on those maps.

[Dave Leip]

Thanks Dave.

Tied results are still showing up as empty, by the way.    I'm not sure if that's been reported yet...

Montana is going great - the spreadsheet format really helps.

Cool - but - there is a problem...  I should have warned ahead of time (Note that checkbox that asks to verify that the county order is the same in the source as the template spreadsheet).  McCone and Madison counties are reversed in all your entries (excel sorts Mc after Ma, but traditionally, Mc has always been listed before Ma and the fips code supports the latter order).  This is a headache that I am constantly having to deal with - in printed sources, I have to check the order of every printed county name before entering the data... so, I think you'll need to redo...  let me work to create an easier way to change just the data for a race and I'll post another message on this thread when its ready.

I'll also add a red/green tie color.

[Vasall des Midas]

Blue/green too.

[Dave Leip]

I've now added data update functionality to the upload script: at the bottom of any data page that you contributed, there is a new link "Change Data for this Contest".   This will allow you to upload the new data for that contest without touching any of the other information (candidates, sources, etc.).

Dave

[Dave Leip]

I also added official publications for AZ (pdf canvasses), Idaho (excel canvasses), and Delaware (pdf scan official results) to the DOC folder.