Wisconsin 2006 death penalty & gay marriage referendum maps

[Linus Van Pelt]

... using Dave's App, inspired (along with the color scale) by Lewis Trondheim's map of New York from a while back. Grey is either side under 55%, the lighter pink and green are 55-70%, the red and medium green are 70-85%, and the dark red and green (neither of which appears on the Milwaukee map) are 85+%.

The questions were in favor of the death penalty and in favor of restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples; thus "yes" is in both cases the "socially conservative" vote (with apologies to the "seamless garment" crowd).

All right, first: Milwaukee County; I'll take requests for other counties. The death penalty is on the left, and marriage is on the right.

[Linus Van Pelt]

So which colors are yes/no? Sorry, I have know nothing about the Milwaukie area....

Green is yes and red is no; the scale is described in the first post. Given the questions, green is pro-death penalty and anti-gay marriage.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Dane, death penalty:


Dane, marriage:

[Linus Van Pelt]

Total votes 2-1 against the death penalty and 3-0 for the marriage amendment - exactly as BRTD says, only its own precinct due to the weird municipal boundary crossing the county line.

[Linus Van Pelt]

I'd like to see the heavily-Democratic counties in the northwest.

The scale's a little awkward at the single-county level, so in each case a map of all three on the left and then a couple of insets: the middle one is Superior and the right one has Ashland at the bottom and Washburn at the top.

Death penalty:


Marriage: