The homelycooking New York Town Maps Thread

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I am writing to you, friends, as I have nearly completed a great project. Over the past two months I have gone grubbing county-by-county in New York for election results statistics. I made nearly forty phone calls, sent twelve letters, spent nearly $30 of my own very limited money and spent hundreds of hours banging away on my laptop computer and it's still not done. But it's very close. I have not recieved statistics from only three of New York's counties and have complete statistics from five different elections in over fifty. So I have started to assemble some maps, and will post them here for your viewing pleasure. I will fill in the holes in the maps as I finish up the data collection.

I'm proud to say that I can assemble (nearly complete) maps and data sets from any race in New York from the 2006, 2008 and 2010 general elections, the 2008 presidential primaries and the 2010 primaries, with only a few exceptions. I await your requests.

Yours truly,

hc

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Presidential primaries please.

Sure. I am missing four counties: Lewis, Ontario, Nassau and Suffolk (exorbitant prices!), but the rest looks pretty damn good.

2008 Democratic Primary:



2008 Republican Primary:

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That map is about half complete. I will put some more work into it. So far the only Democratic wins upstate are in the cities (Utica, Syracuse, Albany, Buffalo), in Tompkins County and way up in the North Country. Wilson managed to win Salamanca and Geneseo.

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Here's what I have for the gubernatorial race so far.

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Good work as usual, hc!

Can you list the major cities and towns that voted for Obama in the primary? Certainly Ithaca, Poughkeepsie, Buffalo, perhaps Rochester if I'm reading the map correctly.

Here are all of them (except for counties that I don't have data for).

MONROE COUNTY:
Rochester

TOMPKINS COUNTY:
Ithaca City (Obama's best municipality in New York - 67.5% of the vote)
Ithaca Town
Lansing
Dryden
Ulysses
Newfield
Danby
Caroline

SCHUYLER COUNTY:
Cayuta

ERIE COUNTY:
Buffalo

LIVINGSTON COUNTY:
Geneseo

ALLEGANY COUNTY:
Almond
Alfred
Allen
Centerville

CATTARAUGUS COUNTY:
New Albion

MADISON COUNTY:
Hamilton

ESSEX COUNTY:
Keene
Essex
Westport

WASHINGTON COUNTY:
Dresden
Hampton

WARREN COUNTY:
Stony Creek (tie)

SCHOHARIE COUNTY:
Blenheim

OTSEGO COUNTY:
Otsego
Westford
Springfield

RENSSELAER COUNTY:
Petersburgh (tie)

GREENE COUNTY:
Lexington

ORANGE COUNTY:
Newburgh City

ULSTER COUNTY:
Rosendale
Rochester
New Paltz
Shandaken
Olive
Marbletown
Hardenburgh
Woodstock

COLUMBIA COUNTY:
Austerlitz
Hillsdale
Chatham
Gallatin
Taghkanic
Germantown

DUTCHESS COUNTY:
Clinton
Stanford
Washington
Millerton
Milan
Pine Plains
Red Hook
Rhinebeck
Beacon
Poughkeepsie City

PUTNAM COUNTY:
Phillipstown

WESTCHESTER COUNTY:
Pelham
Mount Vernon
North Salem
Pound Ridge
Bedford
Peekskill
Rye City

- Did you get my PM, nclib?

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I do, in fact. It's just not as complete as the others.

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As I said in the OP, I only have results from 2006, 2008 and 2010. I am currently working on the primary you mentioned, however, and will post that as soon as I finish it.

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ALLEGANY COUNTY: (don't know about these) These have so few Democrats that Obama won with a majority of only a few votes.
Almond
Alfred
Allen
Centerville

CATTARAUGUS COUNTY: (don't know) Same as above.
New Albion

ESSEX COUNTY: (don't know) These towns rely on tourism from the Adirondack Mountains and have a large population of liberals who enjoy the hiking and skiing.
Keene
Essex
Westport

OTSEGO COUNTY: Similar to the above, with the Catskills replacing the Adirondacks.
Otsego
Westford
Springfield

COLUMBIA COUNTY: (not sure, though this general area has several Obama towns) This region, along with the Obama towns in Dutchess, Putnam, Rensselaer and Washington counties is very ideologically and politically correlate with towns across the border in Massachusetts and Vermont
Austerlitz
Hillsdale
Chatham
Gallatin
Taghkanic
Germantown

DUTCHESS COUNTY:
Clinton
Stanford
Washington
Millerton - music scene
Milan
Pine Plains
Red Hook - Bard College
Rhinebeck
Beacon
Poughkeepsie City - urban, Vassar Coll.

PUTNAM COUNTY: (don't know)
Phillipstown

WESTCHESTER COUNTY: Liberal whites plus blacks from the cities.
Pelham
Mount Vernon - urban, majority black
North Salem
Pound Ridge
Bedford
Peekskill
Rye City

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Time for an update. This map shows the strength of the strongest third party in each town from the 2010 gubernatorial election. It's one of my all-time favorites.

Green: Howie Hawkins (Green Party), who lives in Syracuse.
Yellow: Warren Redlich (Libertarian Party), who lives in Guilderland, which is just outside of Albany.
Blue: Jimmy McMillan (Rent is 2 Damn High Party)
Purple: Kristin Davis (Antiprohibition Party), who was endorsed by the mayor of Watertown.
Red: Charles Barron (Freedom Party), who lives in Brooklyn.

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Thanks, Lunar. I fixed that.

The 2010 Gubernatorial Map and Third Parties Strength Map have now been updated to include Dutchess County.

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I won't be able to finish it in the near future. Very soon I'll be getting the results for the four upstate counties I'm missing (Monroe, Lewis, Hamilton, Westchester), but the prices that Nassau and Suffolk Counties have demanded for photocopies of their canvass books are exorbitant, so I won't be able to acquire the results unless I get some research funding.

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Thanks, cinyc, but believe me, I go to those sites every day to check if they've posted 2010 canvass books. I have the data I need from the other years.

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Here are some demographic maps I made a while ago.

Percent white:



Percent Asian:



I can do percent Hispanic/black/native etc. if you'd like.

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The 2010 Republican Gubernatorial Primary map has been updated to include Ontario County.

(If you're wondering why Montgomery County has no town detail, it's only because the election officials there were having trouble implementing their new voting system and can't recall which voting machine corresponds to which town.)

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More updates.

The 2008 Presidential Primaries maps have been updated to include Ontario County.




And here are two maps from the 2010 Primaries - Gubernatorial and Lieutenant Gubernatorial for the GOP. Note Gregory Edwards' effect on bringing down Paladino margins in the North and along the PA border.

Green: Lazio/Edwards
Blue: Paladino/Ognibene

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What is up with that green township over in Chautauqua county? It seems weird that one township likes lazio.

I think it has to do with the strength of Gregory Edwards (Lazio's running mate) in Chautauqua. Edwards is from the county, though he lives in Jamestown, not Clymer (the green township). Clymer is also relatively small (population 1500).

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The primaries maps have been updated to include Ulster County.




And the gubernatorial map now includes Westchester County.

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Other maps that would be instersting to see if you have them are the 2010 republican senate primary to replace Hillary Clinton

I have it now. Dutchess County has also been added. Blue is Joseph DioGuardi, Red is David Malpass and Green is Bruce Blakeman.

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I just got some data in for Lewis County:

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I'm back in business!

UPSTATE NEW YORK IS COMPLETE FOR 2010 GENERALS!

Gubernatorial



Gubernatorial 3d Parties

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Suffolk County data has been acquired, thanks to Lunar's hard work and persistence.




Now, it's time to get serious with Nassau County.

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This one's going in my signature tomorrow. It took five days of work, two to three hours each day.

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Do you have downstate?

A little. NYC organized their data by assembly district on their website. I managed to get some files from Suffolk County at great expense and with the assistance of Lunar. Nassau County is useless.