Homely's new maps thread

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A glorious new rendering of NY-20 2010, this time in 2.5% scale.

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Homley, your map is broken

Those bastards!

I've fixed it now.

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The PVI is calculated on the basis of the results of the two previous presidential elections.

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Here's something from the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary: a precinct map of the entire state of Massachusetts!



Requests are welcome.

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Perhaps you've seen this one?

I don't have precinct data yet from 2012. (Someone will probably have to go town-by-town, unfortunately). As soon as I can find it/get it, though, I'll start on your request.

I've got precinct data from 2002-2010, though...

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First in a series of 2.5% scaled Massachusetts Congressional district maps.

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Five-way Republican primary!

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The very first 2010 precinct map from the state of Connecticut! 2.5% scale, 'cause it's gangsta.

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Maps by State House district and State Senate district:




Only three Malloy House districts also elected Republican legislators: 74, 142 (the Minority Leader's district!) and 144.

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2008 New York and New England GOP strength by municipality, continuous (0.20%, 500 shades) scale.

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2008?

Yes.

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There seems to be a pretty stark contrast between Vermont/Western MA and the neighboring towns in Eastern NY... How comes?

I think the root cause of that is twofold: the political (state-boundary) divide between the communities in Massachusetts and New York and the geographic divide (the Taconic Range).

During settlement and the Early Republic, the difficulty in building transportation links across the mountains meant that Hudson Valley towns and Housatonic Valley towns were able to develop economies and cultures relatively independent of each other. The state boundary only reinforced the divide. Nowadays, the transportation problem has been mitigated, and you start to see Columbia County border towns (Austerlitz, Canaan, Hillsdale) become more Democratic in their voting habits. But still they're nowhere near the Democratic strength in Stockbridge and Great Barrington. That's a testament, I think, to the durability of political culture as well as an indication of the importance of a political boundary in defining people's daily activity spaces and mental geographies.

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The counties on the New York side of the line have as a whole trended, in general, Democratic of late. Columbia County was 47-46 Gore, then 51-47 Kerry, then 56-42 Obama both times (swinging very slightly D in 2012). Of note is that it is now more Democratic than Rensselaer County despite Rensselaer containing the post-industrial city of Troy and Columbia being primarily rural--which, granted, which the exception of some suburbanization in the southwestern part of the county as soon as you get out of spitting distance of the Hudson Rensselaer is too. Rensselear has gone from 51-43 Gore, to 50-48 Kerry, to 54-44 Obama, to 55-43 Obama.

(Dutchess County also borders Massachusetts, technically, but it's for about two thousand feet and in a completely uninhabited area of wooded mountains southwest of Great Barrington.)

Before 1992 both counties were Republican. In 1992 they split, with Columbia for Bush and Rensselaer for Clinton. Since 1996 they've both been Democratic, but I don't have the exact numbers for 1996.

Local Republicans are still dominant in Rennselaer outside Troy; I'm not sure about Columbia.

You see patterns like this in a lot of rural upstate New York.

Have you spent much time in the Hudson's rive gauche? How would you compare it to Western Massachusetts in terms of culture, topography, demography, economics? Despite living in north central Connecticut all my life, less than 40 miles from Dutchess on Route 44, I've only been once (Poughkeepsie).

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Finally, a complete precinct map from the crazy 2009 NY-23 special election. Clinton County's results were hard to come by:

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In the works: a 2010 PA Senate map (2.5% scale) by municipality.

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Every important election in Connecticut of the past 22 years!

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Couldn't manage to put all sixteen images into a single .gif, unfortunately.


 

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There used to be a nice 2002 MA Democratic Gubernatorial map by town at the very bottom of the front page of the Atlas. It's no longer there, but I'm now in a position to one-up the honorable Mr. Leip with this monster. Right click for a much clearer image:

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A particularly cruel gerrymander: