Discuss with maps!: County map requests for 2008 election results

[Lief 🗽]

So, I called the Travis County Clerk's Office and the Travis County Tax Office and neither of them knew what a shapefile or a precinct map was. So I emailed the GIS Staff for Travis County and hopefully they can help.

[Lief 🗽]

So, I called the Travis County Clerk's Office and the Travis County Tax Office and neither of them knew what a shapefile or a precinct map was. So I emailed the GIS Staff for Travis County and hopefully they can help.

EXCITING UPDATE: The guy emailed me back and gave me the real number to call, but this person won't be at work until Tuesday.

[Jake]

GISPilot.com has some good links

[Alcon]

The Allegheney map is formatted in some insanely obscure way that  may take be a bit to crack.  I'm still working on it.

[Jake]

The Allegheney map is formatted in some insanely obscure way that may take be a bit to crack.  I'm still working on it.

Take your time.

[danny]

Rockland county, New York:

map:

https://geopower.jws.com/rockland/pages/maps/map_download.jsp?id=2069

results:

http://www.co.rockland.ny.us/BOE/2008Election.csv

[Alcon]

Sorry Danny, but I can't use a PDF, it has to be a GIS shapefile.

Still working (slowly but surely) on Allegheny.

[RI]

Some random maps...may interest you or not

Prince George's County, MD


Hawaii County, HI


Blaine County, ID


Latah County, ID


Teton County, WY

[Verily]

Does this help you, Alcon?

http://gis.co.bergen.nj.us/bergencounty/viewer.asp

[minionofmidas]

Wow, very cool.

[RI]

Duval County, FL (The shapefile was not the best quality...but I think you get the idea)

[Alcon]

Great stuff, realisticidealist.

Verily: That does definitely base itself on a shapefile, but I don't see any download option.  You'd probably have to ask the GIS department for one.

[RI]

Montgomery County, MD (More DC area stuff)

[minionofmidas]

What's the blue precinct by the river? (Yeah, I notice the precincts around it aren't blowouts either).

[RI]

What's the blue precinct by the river? (Yeah, I notice the precincts around it aren't blowouts either).

I have no idea what happened there, but here are the results:

Precinct 06-09
John McCain: 672       50.83%
Barack Obama: 628    47.50%
Cynthia McKinney: 5     0.38%
Write-Ins: 5                  0.38%
Bob Barr: 4                   0.30%
Ralph Nader: 4             0.30%
Alan Keyes: 3               0.23%
Chuck Baldwin: 1          0.08%

[NOVA Green]

What's the blue precinct by the river? (Yeah, I notice the precincts around it aren't blowouts either).

I have no idea what happened there, but here are the results:

Precinct 06-09
John McCain: 672       50.83%
Barack Obama: 628    47.50%
Cynthia McKinney: 5     0.38%
Write-Ins: 5                  0.38%
Bob Barr: 4                   0.30%
Ralph Nader: 4             0.30%
Alan Keyes: 3               0.23%
Chuck Baldwin: 1          0.08%

It looks like an upscale tourist spot "Chesapeake and Ohio Canal"which is also a key part of a
major Green Belt region.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Chesapeake-and-Ohio-Canal

Not sure about much else since it is an unincorporated area and I haven't tried pulling up census data and comparing it to neighboring precincts (if even available).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What's the blue precinct by the river? (Yeah, I notice the precincts around it aren't blowouts either).

It's a very, very, very rich area. Of course, so is everywhere else along that stretch of the river (and in both states). It's got less Asians than the equally rich areas just east of it.

[RI]

I am working on a Maricopa County map that is most of the way done and will be posted within the next couple of days. However, I must say that it is single-handedly the most frustrating map I have ever attempted. The file they supplied is the longest >.txt< file ever made (several hundred thousand lines long); it is so large that it crashes my internet every time I open it.

[Alcon]

I am working on a Maricopa County map that is most of the way done and will be posted within the next couple of days. However, I must say that it is single-handedly the most frustrating map I have ever attempted. The file they supplied is the longest >.txt< file ever made (several hundred thousand lines long); it is so large that it crashes my internet every time I open it.

I hate Maricopa's format, but I'd love a map.  You don't happen to know of a way to figure out which precincts are in the city of Phoenix?  The county bounced me off to the local political parties.

[The Mikado]

Montgomery County, MD (More DC area stuff)

I was actually expecting Silver Spring to be even more Democratic than that.

[Torie]

I am working on a Maricopa County map that is most of the way done and will be posted within the next couple of days. However, I must say that it is single-handedly the most frustrating map I have ever attempted. The file they supplied is the longest >.txt< file ever made (several hundred thousand lines long); it is so large that it crashes my internet every time I open it.

I hate Maricopa's format, but I'd love a map.  You don't happen to know of a way to figure out which precincts are in the city of Phoenix?  The county bounced me off to the local political parties.

You can go to the city of Phoenix election site, and pull down the precincts for the 2007 municipal election, which although it will have consolidated precincts, the names of the three or four precincts that were combined will be listed. All you will need to do for the 131 consolidated precincts, is write down three or four names for each of them, and then go to the general election results, and tag the Phoenix precincts on an excel spreadsheet, use the sort function to put them all in one place on the list, and you are then good to go. It should take you more than about 4 hours or so.

[RI]

I am working on a Maricopa County map that is most of the way done and will be posted within the next couple of days. However, I must say that it is single-handedly the most frustrating map I have ever attempted. The file they supplied is the longest >.txt< file ever made (several hundred thousand lines long); it is so large that it crashes my internet every time I open it.

I hate Maricopa's format, but I'd love a map.  You don't happen to know of a way to figure out which precincts are in the city of Phoenix?  The county bounced me off to the local political parties.

You can go to the city of Phoenix election site, and pull down the precincts for the 2007 municipal election, which although it will have consolidated precincts, the names of the three or four precincts that were combined will be listed. All you will need to do for the 131 consolidated precincts, is write down three or four names for each of them, and then go to the general election results, and tag the Phoenix precincts on an excel spreadsheet, use the sort function to put them all in one place on the list, and you are then good to go. It should take you more than about 4 hours or so.

All yours, Alcon.

[Alcon]

I am working on a Maricopa County map that is most of the way done and will be posted within the next couple of days. However, I must say that it is single-handedly the most frustrating map I have ever attempted. The file they supplied is the longest >.txt< file ever made (several hundred thousand lines long); it is so large that it crashes my internet every time I open it.

I hate Maricopa's format, but I'd love a map.  You don't happen to know of a way to figure out which precincts are in the city of Phoenix?  The county bounced me off to the local political parties.

You can go to the city of Phoenix election site, and pull down the precincts for the 2007 municipal election, which although it will have consolidated precincts, the names of the three or four precincts that were combined will be listed. All you will need to do for the 131 consolidated precincts, is write down three or four names for each of them, and then go to the general election results, and tag the Phoenix precincts on an excel spreadsheet, use the sort function to put them all in one place on the list, and you are then good to go. It should take you more than about 4 hours or so.

That actually gave me a good lead on this -- I didn't realize the City of Phoenix had their own elections department.  I'm annoying them now.  They're infinitely more helpful than the county.  I found an old polling place book for May 2008 (unfortunately the results on the web site truncate precinct names to ambiguous levels like "De"), and they're going to get back to me to try to tell the difference.

So...yeah...four hours and a few more phone calls and I'll probably know if no one involved messes up

this is so not worth it.

[RI]

Here is the fruit of my labor. Enjoy.

Maricopa County, AZ

http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/rarohla/MaricopaCounty.png

The grey precinct had no votes.

[Alcon]

Great job.  Do you happen to know the name of the Obama precinct in the south?  I'm looking at a map and it doesn't look like there's much "there" there