Michigan maps thread

[Dave from Michigan]

Ok I don't think this is how you make a swing map. Here is a map that shows if Reagan received a higher or lower percent of the vote than Ford did in 1976. So if Reagan got 60% and Ford got 56% of the vote it would be colored blue as it swung Republican but if Ford got 60% and Reagan got 56% it would be red as it swung away from Republicans. The map is shaded as follows, Light blue means Reagan got more than 5% more than Ford, Regular blue means 5-9.9% and dark blue means over 10% more than Ford. The same goes for Red but it means Reagan got less than Ford by 5% for light red, 5-9.9% for regular red, and over 10 for dark red.

Is this how you make a normal swing map like you see on the Atlas site election results. It doesn't seem right, but it seems like it would be a interesting map anyways.

[Dave from Michigan]

I should have done this as a city and township map not one with congress districts.


Warren and Southgate should be light blue. Avon would be light red.

I'm missing data for Highland Park and Hamtramck for 1980 so I can't calculate a swing.

Southgate is the city in Wayne county, Avon is in Oakland and Warren is in Macomb county just in case you aren't familiar with metro Detroit.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is the 1976 Presidential vote by city and township for the 5th Congressional district.

Not really any surprises here. Gerald Ford dominates his old congress district area. Only one township votes for Carter. A shaded map would show Ford winning 60-70% of the vote throughout this district.

[Dave from Michigan]

I just checked the 1980 map would look exactly the same.

[Dave from Michigan]

how about some more recent elections. Here is the 2012 Presidential vote by congress district for Metro Detroit (districts 9,11,12,13, and 14), under the current district lines.

[Dave from Michigan]

damn that is way to small sorry.

Also cities that are split between two districts the color is for who won that section of the city. For example West Bloomfield is split between the 11 and 14th districts, Obama won the city as a whole but Romney won the part in the 11th district and Obama won the part in the 14th. I was able to match the precinct map lines to the congress district lines exactly except for Scio township (the area west of Ann Arbor) The precinct map does not match the congress district lines, but the whole township is so Democratic that Obama surely won both parts and especially the part in the 12th district.

[Dave from Michigan]

Oh wow, this thread is awesome.  Could you make some maps indicating the exact streagth of both Reagan and Carter in each town?  

Great job, btw!  

thanks

Do you mean a map showing Reagan's percent in all towns then one showing Carters. that may be tricky since I don't have that many colors, I will try to make something.

Here is a map showing the percent of the vote the winning candidate got in each town.

light red or blue is under 50%
the next shade is 50%
then 55%
then 60%
then 70%
then 80%
there were no cities or townships over 90%.

[Dave from Michigan]

Ok here is 1980 presidential vote percent for Reagan. I hope the contrast between colors is enough

The levels are below 20%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 45%, 50%, 55%, 60%, 70% and 80% and up.

I really tried to make the contrast enough but it may be hard to see the different shades of blue. If you are familiar with metro Detroit, River Rouge, Ecorse, and Hamtramck are  20%, Hazel Park and Oak Park 30% can you tell the difference?

[Dave from Michigan]

I'm currently working on city/township results for state elections from 1998-present, and possibly with governor's races as far as they go.  Great job on your maps!

thanks, so you are going to do presidential vote by city/township post 1998 and city/township maps for governor elections? I'm just wondering so I don't accidentally do the same thing as you. I wasn't planning on doing any of those elections anyway so we should be good. Do you have a statewide city/township map that you are going to use?

Yes.  There's a city/township map on the Atlas that I colored for a default, but some of the cities and townships are hard to see.  Another one would be nice, but it's not necessary.  I was also planning on doing elections for Senate, Attorney General, and Secretary of State.

Ok, cool, I think I will just keep using the maps I'm currently using. I was planning on doing city and township maps for the Presidential elections before 1992. and congress district maps showing presidential vote. I have no plans on doing Senate, Attorney General, and Secretary of state, there all yours, same with Governor elections.

[Dave from Michigan]

[Dave from Michigan]

Hamtramck is wrong on the Democratic % map it's 66% Democratic

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is the 2004 presidential election vote by congress districts by city and township.

[Dave from Michigan]

note: the totals for cities or townships that are split were calculated by looking at the congress district results for that part of the city/twp and writing those precincts numbers down for them, then looking at the presidential results and adding up the same precincts up to get the totals. Hopefully they are right. Most cities seem to split precinct lines along congress district lines. All the split cities/twp have changed the precinct maps since the 2000's due to 2010 redistricting, so the current precinct maps are most likely inaccurate, for 2004 and 2008. The precinct data online only goes back to 1998 though.

The 2012 presidential vote by congress district and city/twp map (top of the page) had only one township that the precinct lines didn't match the congress district lines (Scio township).

[Dave from Michigan]

any requests?

I should have 2008 presidential election by congress district tonight.

[Dave from Michigan]

I just created a Index on the 1st page, 3 posts down.

[Dave from Michigan]

here is 1984 presidential vote by city and township

[Dave from Michigan]

here is 2008 presidential vote by congressional district and city/twp.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is 1972 presidential election

[Dave from Michigan]

here is the 1988 presidential election by city/twp

[Dave from Michigan]

Ok so I have done 1964, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, and 1988 presidential vote by city and township. I can get the data for 1968 and 1992 and 1996 and should have those maps up Tuesday or Wednesday. I may have found data for before 1964 but I'm not sure if it is the city/twp data or just county data. I won't know until I see it. I'm not getting my hopes up because I have been disappointed before. I thought I found the 1972 Democratic primary by city and twp, but it was only for some counties and not the Southeastern Michigan ones.

any requests?

[Dave from Michigan]

oh here is 2000 presidential vote by city/twp for metro Detroit

[Dave from Michigan]

Ok sorry no maps right now to post but I found the 1968 presidential vote for cities and townships by precinct by congress district, but it is not totaled up. The computer printout shows the results by precinct but after listing all the precincts for that city/twp it doesn't total them out for that city/twp like it does for all other years. So I'm going to have to hand calculate the totals myself. It does total the votes for each congress district though. the computer printouts are in bad condition the whole thing is warped and the pages pull apart, it's that old computer paper printout pages from the 60's/70's. Unfortunately the computer printouts are in the Rare Book Room of the library of Michigan and not in the archives. The rare book room is only open from 1-4pm weekdays. The archives is open 1-5 weekdays and 10-4 Saturdays. The actual Library of Michigan is open 10-5 weekdays.

[Dave from Michigan]

I made maps of the Michigan Congress districts by decade back till 1892.

Here is the current map (2012-) and I will be working backwards to 1892.

first will be the statewide map and then a Metro Detroit detail map. since you can't tell that area very well on just a statewide map.

[Dave from Michigan]

here is the metro Detroit detail map

[Dave from Michigan]

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