Color Code for Turnout?

[Sorenroy]

I seem to have lost it in my switch to my newest computer. Does anyone have the color code for turnout (it was orange if I'm remembering correctly)?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

You mean what the different shades mean?

[cinyc]

I think the turnout key is the same as population.

Edit: See also the County Map Generator for the extended key that I used as the basis for my QGIS 7ColorCode style. It gives you the HTML notation for each color.

[Sorenroy]

Thanks, although with population having 12 different colors, I'm not exactly sure what numbers to use for it. Do you just lob off the bottom two colors and use the other ten?

[cinyc]

Thanks, although with population having 12 different colors, I'm not exactly sure what numbers to use for it. Do you just lob off the bottom two colors and use the other ten?

I'm not sure. The map generator has different numbers for population, too.

I suppose you can always use all 12 and just update your legend to reflect what the colors represent.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Here's 1960 %VAP.  Does this help?

[Sorenroy]

Yes, very. Where did you find it? I would like to get the colors for >10% and >0%. Also, an interesting note is that the color code is slightly different from the population color code for some reason.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Yes, very. Where did you find it? I would like to get the colors for >10% and >0%. Also, an interesting note is that the color code is slightly different from the population color code for some reason.

Go on the main site Results page, any presidential result between 1960-2004. On the left of the map go down to the button that says "%VAP" and there is an "M" beside it, and that takes you to the map with percent of voting age population with these shades. Right beneath it there is the "%REG" and "M" by it that shows percent of registered voters who voted in the election.

  Here is the 1960 Registered voter %, that fills in the top end of the spectrum:
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As for the 0% and 10% shades, I think I might have seen the full spectrum somewhere but I'm not sure.  Are you using this for a project?

[Sorenroy]

Yes. I've been making maps of my city's election (thus the need for the low turnout colors) and was trying to use a standard color key so it looked good.

...Looking through the 1960-2004 elections, it does not appear that any state ever had turnout below 20%, so none of them have the lower gradient. If you happen to remember where you saw the low end of the spectrum please tell me!

[Sorenroy]

Since you were wondering, here is the map in question. Because of the lack of lower numbers on the key I did relative turnout to the highest turnout precinct (29.29%=100% on the map).