The homelycooking New England Town Maps Thread

[homelycooking]

Here's a fun primary map from the 2010 Republican gubernatorial race. Blue is Paul Lepage.

[homelycooking]

Another map from the above primary: Strongest candidate who is not Paul Lepage.
Aroostook County was really painful to fill with color - every other town had a 2nd place tie.



Red: Leslie Otten
Green: Peter Mills
Yellow: Bruce Poliquin
Orange: William Beardsley
Blue: Matthew Jacobson
Purple: Stephen Abbott

[homelycooking]

I'm back in business! Let loose the maps.

1948 Presidential

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yay, it's back !

Too bad there are so much missing data.

[homelycooking]

Yay, it's back !

Too bad there are so much missing data.

Maine and Rhode Island only go back to 1990 on their websites. I'll have to call them for the older stuff.

[homelycooking]

1996 Presidential is now complete:

[homelycooking]

For the first time ever, ladies and gentlemen: 1992-2008 presidentials! Five very large and very beautiful maps. Zoom out to 75% for best results.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Beautiful !

Now I want some trend maps.

[homelycooking]

All right, Antonio.

The next one I'll do will be 2000-2008 trend.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

 I wouldn't have suspected the GOP won so many more towns in VT in 2000 than in 92 or 96.

[RI]

I wouldn't have suspected the GOP won so many more towns in VT in 2000 than in 92 or 96.

That's partially due to Nader and partially due to Perot, among other things.

[homelycooking]

I wouldn't have suspected the GOP won so many more towns in VT in 2000 than in 92 or 96.

That's partially due to Nader and partially due to Perot, among other things.

Mostly due to Perot, I think. In counties where Bush did well in 2000 (Orange, Caledonia, Orleans), Perot won between 20 and 30% of the vote in most towns in '92 and between 10 and 20% in '96. The vote for Nader on average in '96 was not very strong, and Clinton won almost all of Nader's best towns anyway.

[homelycooking]

Especially for Antonio, the trend map from 2000-2008.



As always, I'm open to requests.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Wow, that's beautiful ! The huge republican trend in the South and democratic in the North is quite striking... Really a great map, thank you.

If I can ask you again, I'd really like to see 1996-2008, then 1992-2008, etc...

[homelycooking]

Here is 1992 Perot strength compared with 1996 Perot strength, same scale to both maps.

[homelycooking]

2002 Gubernatorial races are complete, with a very unusual Maine map.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

it looks like the base for the parties in Maine switched between  2002 and 2006!

[homelycooking]

it looks like the base for the parties in Maine switched between  2002 and 2006!

Sort of. A big reason why Democrats did well in Aroostook, Penobscot, Hancock and Washington counties in 2002 was due to the fact that Baldacci is from Bangor and Ciancette is from South Portland, which suggests that voters up north and down east preferred the candidate who was geographically closer to their interests, even if that meant voting Democratic. In 2006, the Republican, Chandler Woodcock, was from Farmington, so that effect was lessened.

Also, in 2002, the Green candidate Jonathan Carter performed very well. If he was taken off the ballot, Baldacci surely would have won some of Augusta or Portland's suburban periphery.

[homelycooking]

An interesting little map. This shows the last presidential election in which the Republican won each town. The darkest shade is 2008: Hartford hasn't voted Republican since 1924.

[homelycooking]

I'll complete this map for New England - that is, if anyone can figure out what it means.

[homelycooking]

A great looking map. 1990 Gubernatorial election: Morrison (red) vs Rowland (blue) vs Weicker (green)

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Great work!      Do you have any New York maps from the 80's?

[homelycooking]

Great work!      Do you have any New York maps from the 80's?

It's enough trouble trying to get New York town/district results from 2010. Sorry, I don't. But if you're looking for something from the last few elections in NY, I can make it for you.

I'll complete this map for New England - that is, if anyone can figure out what it means.

No guesses on this one?

[Niemeyerite]

swings from the u.s. senate election, 2006, to the senate election, 2010?
no idea

[homelycooking]

swings from the u.s. senate election, 2006, to the senate election, 2010?
no idea

Not even close. I'll give you a hint: there's something definite and specific about Somers and Suffield and Montville which makes them so blue - something very closely related to the red-ness of Bloomfield and Hartford and New Haven. However, not all dark red towns are the result of this.

And if you really were clever, you'd be trying to find out why Hartland and Hampton are gray.