Talk Elections

Thanks to Daily Kos, I've been able to make some maps showing the results of the 2012 Presidential Election by State House/Legislative District.  


I'll start out with:


West Virginia

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Sorry about the size of the map. 

Obama got 71% of the vote in LD 37 in Charleston.  Although I knew he likely won the city, I was surprised at how condensed his support was!    

Washington:

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Nothing surprising here, although it is worthy to note that Obama managed to barely hold on to Washington's 42 Legislative District.  As many of you know, that was one of the places that Democrats tried to win in order to take back the State Senate (they were unsuccessful). 

Oklahoma:

https://www.facebook.com/FuzzybigfootsHistoricalElectionMaps/photos/a.356874237721797.83371.356578374418050/763705117038705/?type=1&theater

Any requests? 

Massachusetts and Utah would be interesting.

California!

Good work, Fuzzy. You might want to consider using/creating better basemaps for these results.

Here's Rhode Island (2% scale).

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For some reason they don't have results for Massachusetts (at least not for House LDs), but maybe Homely can get those for you.  I'll start work on Utah, though.


I'll put it in the queue! 


Thanks, but I'm no good with mapping software, so I'll probably just have to keep going with the resources I know of (Dave's Redistricting App and such).  However, if you have the time to help me with such endeavors, I would certainly appreciate it!

Utah:

https://www.facebook.com/FuzzybigfootsHistoricalElectionMaps/photos/a.356874237721797.83371.356578374418050/763752120367338/?type=1&theater

Very nice! I look forward to this series. :D

So it turns out Daily Kos had interactive maps that go along with the data they collected:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/06/1294897/-Daily-Kos-Elections-interactive-maps-of-presidential-election-results-by-legislative-districts?detail=hide

They don't have detailed election shades though, so I guess mine are still unique in some way.  :P  Should I bother to keep going?  It is convenient to have maps with Atlas shades (red for Democrats and blue for Republicans).  

Yeah, you should continue it Fuzzy.

Alright, will do.  :)

California:

https://www.facebook.com/FuzzybigfootsHistoricalElectionMaps/photos/a.356874237721797.83371.356578374418050/763951740347376/?type=1&theater

Edit: Actually, go to the home page here, then click on the map for better resolution.

https://www.facebook.com/FuzzybigfootsHistoricalElectionMaps?fref=photo

Nebraska:

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Thank you again to the people at Daily Kos for the election data used to create this map.

Kansas:

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Election data provided by Daily Kos.

What's up with the eastern panhandle-panhandle?
Didn't know that this is a Democratic stronghold within WV.

Could you do a map for the 2014 senatorial election in that state? I wonder if the map would look the same.

The eastern panhandle is being increasingly influenced by NOVA. Actually, I can see Capito flipping those red districts, as she represented them in Congress. OTOH, most of the southern districts would probably be a shade or so lighter blue.

Excellent maps, Fuzzy!

I'd like to put in a request for Utah.

Thanks!  Already got it!  ;)

This may be part of it, but the area is actually more Democratic than the adjacent parts of VA and MD, so I'm not sure it's the whole story. Another issue is that there is a lot of federal office employment in this area - the IRS has a big processing centre in Martinsburg, and one of the main National Parks offices is in Harpers Ferry.

Thank you to Flo, who provided the map!

Florida:

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Election data provided by Daily Kos

Iowa:

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Thank you to Daily Kos for the election data. 

Minnesota:

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Florida (by State House District):


https://www.facebook.com/FuzzybigfootsHistoricalElectionMaps/photos/a.356874237721797.83371.356578374418050/766291180113432/?type=1&permPage=1

I don't know if I'm posting in the right place, but Fuzzy has my total permission to put my maps on Wikipedia.

Thanks!


btw for those who don't know, I put some of Shilly's maps on Wikipedia and credited him.  However, since there wasn't a statement of permission before, those maps are now being treated as if they infringed copyright rules, and are in danger of being deleted.  Now things should be better.

btw Georgia should be along soon!

Georgia:

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A special thank you goes out to Adam Griffin for getting me the map template, and Daily Kos for the election data used to create this map! 

This map is great for what it tells you that isn't so obvious in a county map: the importance to the Dems of the high margins they get in the urban areas scattered around the state, while also relying on a significant portion of the state's rural areas mainly in the east.

Illinois would be fascinating, although I know that our data can be difficult to consolidate.

What a coincidence, Illinois was next on my list!  And Daily Kos has all the election data for it already, all we need is a map.

Illinois:

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A special thank you to Adam Griffin for the map template!  Another thank you to Daily Kos for the election data used to create this map. 

Great work!

Thank you! 

That's 13 states down.  We'll likely have another map up relatively soon. 

Louisiana:

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Excellent, thank you!

how does that compare to the legislature map? Are there still many Romney/D districts?

^ There are two Romney/Dem Senate seats (SDs 12 and 28). There are just over a dozen House seats, mostly in Acadiana.

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^ Strange to see Mitt Romney winning Philadelphia and Barack Obama winning Appalachia. :P

Thanks for noticing that, Flo. Someone looks at my maps!

Awesome, thank you Homely! 

Who wouldn't look at your maps? The same goes to Fuzzy, Miles, Griffin, and everyone else who makes these sort of things! :)

I'm surprised how relatively non-Republican rural Berks county is.

Berks has well over 400,000 people though :P