Just a quick update on our project to crowdsource presidential results by congressional district. The following states are all in need of links to official data sources and “plans of attack”:
Alabama
Colorado
Florida
Illinois
Indiana
Louisiana
Mississippi
New Jersey
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Washington
The data sources don’t have to have actual numbers available yet – in fact, since most states won’t certify their vote totals for a while yet, that is only to be expected. And as for “plan of attack,” I’m talking about how we expect to crunch the numbers – do the states publish results by CD? Do they divide up (relatively) neatly by towns or counties? Or will we have to rely on raw precinct data?
Please input any relevant links or information into this spreadsheet. Thanks!
IA-04(Latham, R): Obama won here 53%-46%.
OH-01(Driehaus, D): Obama won here 54%-45%.
OH-02(Schmidt, R): McCain won here 60%-38%. This district is probably to much to win in a Presidential year.
NY-03(King, R): McCain wins 51%-48%.
NY-13(McMahon, D): McCain wins 51%-49%.
FL-07(Mica, R): McCain carries it 54%-46%.
Everybody, remember to set your spreadsheets for sharing (althougn ot editing) with everybody, even the unregistered.
Uhh, the county results are interesting but pretty much worthless as far as CDs go. Every congressional district in the state takes in a substantial portion (or all) of their population from one of the three biggest counties (Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal).
You could probably get a decent guesstimate for AZ-01, but that’s about it.
I’ve been looking for something (like precincts) that would give a clearer picture, but so far coming up with nothing.
Boston, Fall River and Hanson still need to be inputed.
I found the Wayland precinct results on the town website.
Everything else is in the spreadsheet.
done with iowa, results are probably not finalized yet, since I got those from http://www.iowaauditors.org
While everything was about what I expected it to be (besides maybe those crazy people in Sioux County that vote 81% for McCain) there was one really odd thin:
look at the results of Dubuque County in Eastern Iowa:
Candidate Name
OBAMA/BIDEN 23,791 55.78%
MC CAIN/PALIN 16,694 39.14%
BALDWIN/CASTLE 197 .46%
MC KINNEY/CLEME 216 .51%
BARR/ROOT 300 .70%
LA RIVA/MOSES 248 .58%
NADER/GONZALEZ 499 1.17%
MOORE/ALEXANDER 335 .79%
HARRIS/KENNEDY 375 .88%
****Total**** PRES/VP 42,655
http://elections.dubuquecounty…
quite a few votes for third party candidates and in some instances (La Riva/Moses) more than in the whole rest of Iowa.
I suspect there’s either something wrong with those numbers or they had some strange butterfly ballot.