Best 2004 Electoral/county map Yet

esri ^ | 11/7/04

[tarawa]

very interesting. Thanks for the post.

[lancer]

Ohio wasn't even close if you take out Cleveland/Akron

LOL! That's like Marion Berry's comment about the crime rate in Washington, D.C. ("It would be one of the lowest in the country, if you don't count the murders.") True, I swear.

[El Gran Salseron]

"What's your point?"

Thought you were trying to indicate that Manhattan was the whole of NY city.

Chill. :-)

[Big Giant Head]

cool map ping

[gitmo]

From their website, I infer it represents the margin of votes.

[Ichneumon]

Houston looks pretty red to me, although I don't understand why it appears so short in comparison to much smaller cities like Pittsburgh.

I suspect that the height of the counties is based on "net" votes, not total votes.

For example, if Houston had 2 million "red" votes and 1 million "blue" votes, it would be represented by a red column 1 million tall (2 red minus 1 blue), whereas if a city of the same size had 2.7 million "blue" votes and 0.3 million "red" votes, it would be represented by a blue column 2.4 million tall (2.7 minus 0.3).

Not only would that explain the heights seen in the 3D chart, but it would also probably be more informative than a similar chart scaled in a "winner take all" method.

[SolidSupplySide]

The tip, Cameron County, is now Republicano!

I thought Cameron County was Republicano, too. Neither map seems to reflect that.

[SolidSupplySide]

Interesting how blue the Mexico border turned.

What do you mean? Was there a time when it was redder?

[FreedomCalls]

Houston is the 4th largest city in the US. It looks so short because the way they made the map. They made it so that you are looking down on Houston almost vertically. It exaggerates the height of the far northern, far western, and far eastern cities at the expense of the central southern cities (like Houston, Dallas, and New Orleans).

[Sally II]

I've been hoping to find a map that shows the elections by county. Great to see that. I was wondering how much of the Central California valley (my home) voted. And i'm comforted to see all that red. But anyone know what the deal is with Alpine and Mono counties on the far right? Those are the only mountain areas that voted Kerry.

[FreedomCalls]

The New York City column is spread out over a larger area. And this map is showing the density of a voting area.

[FreedomCalls]

And Utah. Totally red.

[Ichneumon]

How was this generated and what does it represent? I have difficulty believing Chicago and L.A. produced more Dem votes than NYC. Manhattan went 85%-15% for Kerry with 3 million residents or so, but it gets that (comparatively) little blue bar?

Looking at CNN's county-by-county results (below), it looks as if the explanation is that the NYC vote is fractioned among several geographically small, closely-spaced counties (Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Westchester, see here), whereas the LA and Chicago (Cook County) votes are each ALL stacked up in a single large county.

So the NYC vote is represented by five separate "columns", each about a fifth as tall as they would be if NYCity was encompassed by a single county.

Cook

Updated: 12:13 p.m. ET

1,389,631

70%

99% of precincts reporting

(Incumbent)

583,774

29%

11,103

1%

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Manhattan

Updated: 12:14 p.m. ET

468,841

82%

100% of precincts reporting

(Incumbent)

95,362

17%

7,996

1%

1,344

0%

Calero

566

0%

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Los Angeles

Updated: 12:14 p.m. ET

1,670,341

63%

100% of precincts reporting

(Incumbent)

954,764

36%

10,365

1%

8,974

0%

Peltier

7,089

0%

5,580

0%

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[Ichneumon]

The New York City column is spread out over a larger area. And this map is showing the density of a voting area.

No, it's not. If so LA County would be a lot shorter than the NYC counties, since it's a very big county, geographically, while the NYC counties are so tiny I had trouble clicking them on the CNN New York state map.

[kittymyrib]

All of you who voted for the President, but whose states went to Kerry, need to hold your state representatives accountable to the voters in their areas when they go to the state legislatures. What right have the cities to sop up gazillions of dollars from the rural and suburban voters just because freeloaders live there? Make the urban dwellers do without if they can't afford medical care and education. No rural community ought to send more taxes to the state than they get back in benefits. It's time to fight back.

[liberallarry]

Yep. Probably the best map yet. This is the one which should be on the tee-shirts.

[rwfromkansas]

It is higher than LA and NYC for crying out loud.

How the heck can Chicago have that many voters?

[mystery-ak]

Good question....I would like answered too!.....

[Libloather]

Seen this one? Pretty kewl!

[NYCVirago]

What's your point? The other four boroughs went for Kerry 75%-25%.

Actually, Staten Island, my borough, voted 57% for Bush, the highest percentage they've ever given any presidential candidate. They narrowly went for Gore last time around. The media has ignored this, but I think 9/11 was the decisive factor -- most NYC cops and firefighters live on Staten Island, and the borough is by far the most patriotic one in the city.