Wyoming gubernatorial elections since 1950, or: the slow nationalising of US politics and shifting Democratic voter coalitions in one animated gif.
EDIT: Credit to @Chicxulub for the base map.
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Not sure if this is the right thread but I couldn't find one explicitly for transit maps. Some (incredibly soft) AH from a world where, amongst many other things, cars never caught on beyond being luxury items.
Since their establishment by the Rationalist government in the 1920s, the...
The Wyoming Rule is a proposed redistricting rule, whereby, instead of having a fixed number of congressional districts, the population of Wyoming is taken as a basis, and then each state is awarded the number of congressional districts that brings each district's population closest to the...
How viciously can you gerrymander states? Turns out, if you take Georgia and apply the Wyoming Rule (which would give it 17 districts), you can draw a reasonably solid 11-6 map. A 12-5 map seems to be impossible, and a 10-7 map would be safer, but what is the point of fantasy gerrymandering if...
Some of them look to be African-American majority, in the Delta and in Little Rock. You get that quite a lot in the Deep South - c.f. Alabama, South Carolina.
And, the last of the Deep South, North Carolina.
After a seemingly endless stream of uncontested elections, North Carolina appears to make me feel a lot better. Out of 170 state legislative districts over both houses, only a single district - House 107, in the depths of Charlotte - had only one...
Tennessee, home of the nation's most disappointing Blue Dog senatorial candidate, former governor whose surname I recently discovered is not Bredesden, Phil Bredesen (remember when people said he'd do better than O'Rourke?), is surprisingly good for contested elections, so long as you don't look...
I moved away from South Carolina to Georgia thinking it couldn't possibly be worse. After all, Georgia is a competitive state, with high-profile races for governor and the US House. Surely, surely, there would be fewer unopposed elections here, of all Deep South states.
Oh how wrong I was.
70 of...
Next up, the Palmetto State. I'm not sure it's really fair to call what happened in South Carolina this year an election, but it can nonetheless be mapped. A whopping 68 of South Carolina's 124 State House seats were uncontested, and a further 11 were only contested by minor parties, including...
I mean, there was some trend towards the Democrats in the places Moore performed worse than expected (Huntsville, Shelby County), but at most that means the 25-point and 50-point majority colours swap places on the map.
I've already posted these over on SLP, but thought I'd put them over here too as they're probably of interest - I've been mapping this year's state legislative elections in the Deep South, beginning with Alabama:
Alabama was compelled to redraw its districts in 2017 because the old districts...
It's possible, but I suspect most of the Green vote would actually come from West Bridgford itself. Some of the areas it takes in from Nottingham are actually fairly strong for the Tories - Clifton South has what I think is Nottingham's lone Conservative councillor - and of those five Nottingham...
No worries, it's not hugely clear on the map.
The Nottingham city seats might run it close but yeah, it'd take a lot to unseat John Mann on these boundaries.
Quite right, I don't think any of them have elected a Labour councillor for while, certainly not within my time living in the area. They...