Michigan maps thread

[Dave from Michigan]

Great job!  I've been planning on mapping the results by city/township. 

BTW, where do you get the data prior to 1998 (and does it include city/township results?)

What I did was find the state senate district maps and a list of the state senators by party and just drew the maps. I don't have any actual results for the districts. All my info here is from the Michigan Manuals. They have the election results for state senate and house but I don't think it is by city or township level, only county.

I use the Michigan Manuals for the election results I upload prior to 1990 (and including some prior to 1998 that aren't already on here.)

The Michigan manuals are great. Is there a library near you with copies of them.

Yep.  Delta College has them from about 1904 up to the 1940s and from 1956 to the present.  Saginaw Valley only has them from about 1970 onward.  

Michigan statewide map of senate districts for elections 2010, 2006, 2002 (left to right)

Holy crap!! How did Democrats lose a seat in Flint even in 2010?

They didn't, Flint is in the red part of Genesee county. Sorry, it's kind of hard to tell. I probably should have done a detailed map of Genesee county.

Still, there is very little Republican territory in Genesee county from what I gather.  

It was a bit more Republican back in the day.  Nixon and Paul Bagwell both carried it in 1960.

The Library of Michigan in Lansing has all from the 1880's to current. and I believe the archives in the same building have before that.

[Dave from Michigan]

[Dave from Michigan]

yeah thats hard to see. sorry I should have done them separately.

Saginaw is in the 5th and Flint is in the 9th.

The 8th district is the only one that changes parties, twice (1994 and 2000)

The colors are of the party that won the election.

103rd congress (1993-1995)

1st Bart Stupak
2nd Peter Hoekstra
3rd Paul Henry*/ Vern Ehlers
4th Dave Camp
5th James Barcia
6th Fred Upton
7th Nick Smith
8th Bob Carr
9th Dale Kildee
10th David Bonior
11th Joe Knollenberg
12th Sander Levin
13th William D Ford
14th John Conyers
15th Barbara Rose Collins
16th John Dingell
*Paul Henry died on July 31st. Vern Ehlers won special election taking office on December 7th.

[Dave from Michigan]

yeah thats hard to see. sorry I should have done them separately.

Saginaw is in the 5th and Flint is in the 9th.

The 8th district is the only one that changes parties, twice (1994 and 2000)

The colors are of the party that won the election.

103rd congress (1993-1995)

1st Bart Stupak
2nd Peter Hoekstra
3rd Paul Henry*/ Vern Ehlers
4th Dave Camp
5th James Barcia
6th Fred Upton
7th Nick Smith
8th Bob Carr
9th Dale Kildee
10th David Bonior
11th Joe Knollenberg
12th Sander Levin
13th William D Ford
14th John Conyers
15th Barbara Rose Collins
16th John Dingell
*Paul Henry died on July 31st. Vern Ehlers won special election taking office on December 7th.

rather than repeat this for all years since most of these people represented their district for the full 10 years, I will only list changes.

Districts 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14, and 16 the congressperson is the same for all 5 maps.

104th Congress (1995-1997)

8th district Dick Chrysler
13th District Lynn Rivers

105th congress (1997-1999)
8th district Debbie Stabenow
14th district Carolyn Kilpatrick

107th Congress 2001-2003
8th district Mike Rogers

[Dave from Michigan]

I meant to post more maps over the weekend but had other plans then Sunday the touchpad thing on my lap top broke It is going to cost too much to fix so I'm just using a mouse right now, it's a little tricky getting use to a mouse again.

I will have the 1970's and 1966 state senate maps up tonight, and maybe a state house map of the 2000's.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is the statewide map of the 1974-78 state senate. It took quite a while to make this one with so many split counties.

Districts 9,17, and 25 shown on this map are only part of that district the rest of the districts are in the gray part and will be shown on the detailed map of Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Genesee.

The state senate was 24-14 for both the 1975-78 session and the 1979-1982. which is the largest majority and percentage they have had in the state senate since 1855. I don't have the data for before that date.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is the Wayne county map. I did not draw the Detroit districts. I don't have a actual map for them only the census tracts and blocks and it would take too long to figure it out. They are all Democratic anyway. If you want to know what they are I can give you the tract and block numbers.

[Dave from Michigan]

Oakland County Michigan 1974-78

[Dave from Michigan]

Macomb county 1974-78

that little blue spot is part of the 28th district.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is Genesee county. It's all Democratic but I did a detailed map so you can see the boundary lines. Flint is split between 2 districts.

[Dave from Michigan]

and finally 1966-70 statewide.

I will do the Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Genesee detail maps tomorrow. I want to do the rest of the 1960's and the 50's.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is the state house district map for 2002-2010. starting with 2010.

seats won by party by election.
2010 63 Republicans 47 Democrats
2008 67 Democrats 43 Republicans
2006 58 Democrats 52 Republicans
2004 58 Republicans 52 Democrats
2002 62 Republicans 38 Democrats

2012 is 59 Republicans 51 Democrats if anyone was curious. I will eventually do the map but probably last.

There are a lot more changes on the state house maps. I will do detailed maps for the gray areas.

Also it's kind of confusing I should have done more detailed maps for Calhoun county (Battle Creek) and Jackson County (Jackson). On the 2010 map the red district to the right of Kalamazoo county (in gray) that is the Battle Creek district (62), also Jackson is in the next district over with no number (it's district 64) NOT district 65.

[Dave from Michigan]

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(bt2y1l55xsley0zogozp4cuy))/mileg.aspx?page=publications

here is a list of representatives by district and party. I should have done these maps by Legislature instead of election. If you didn't figure it out the 2002 map I made above would be the 2003-04 legislature and so on. So for 2002 map above click the 2003-04 Michigan Manual and then click chapter 3 the legislative branch then scroll down to House of Representatives and committees, you should get a list.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is Wayne county in detail. The Wayne county map I have is kind of deformed, the Grosse Pointe area is too big (district 1 area) District 1 also has a larger piece of Detroit than the map would show, maybe twice as large.

Also I did this backwards I started with 2002 as the first map and went up to 2010 instead of down from 2010.

[Dave from Michigan]

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/House01-state-E_117278_7.pdf

here is a detailed map of the state house districts both statewide and Metro Detroit.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is the statewide map of the 1974-78 state senate. It took quite a while to make this one with so many split counties.

Districts 9,17, and 25 shown on this map are only part of that district the rest of the districts are in the gray part and will be shown on the detailed map of Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Genesee.

The state senate was 24-14 for both the 1975-78 session and the 1979-1982. which is the largest majority and percentage they have had in the state senate since 1855. I don't have the data for before that date.

Democrats actually gained ground in 1978?  That was generally a pretty good Republican year accross all state legislatures. 

actually they just held there 1974 majority in the state senate. 24-14 for both the 1974 and 1978 elections. They lost the district 37 but picked up the Lansing seat (24) in 1978.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is Oakland county in detail. Again I did it starting in 2002 and going up to 2010 instead of the other way. I think I will do it that way for the whole 2002-10 maps. I have labeled the maps quite well so you should be able to tell.

Only one district changes the Republicans held up much better in Oakland than wayne. The 39th district which switched in 06 but not back in 10 is part West Bloomfield and is where lots of Blacks have moved.

[Dave from Michigan]

 

and Macomb

[Dave from Michigan]

Genesee County no changes

[Dave from Michigan]

Saginaw county, again no changes over the 5 elections. I could just do one map of the 2002-2010 years but after drawing the lines on one map your just copying it so it's not that big of a deal.

[Dave from Michigan]

Washtenaw, Kent, Ottawa, Ingham, and Kalamazoo all will have detailed maps.

[Dave from Michigan]

here is Kalamazoo county

[Dave from Michigan]

Kent county michigan state house 2002-10 by stevendave768

Kent county. Democrats picked up the second Grand Rapids seat in 2006 and held it in 2010.

[Dave from Michigan]

any comments or requests. I plan on doing the state house to the 70's. It's the detailed county maps that take more time but i think they are worth it especially for metro Detroit area and counties with 3 or more districts. I want to do the state senate and House all the way back to the 50's if not earlier I believe there will be some interesting results but I need to info first.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here is Washtenaw county, and finally some interesting changes and results. It appears Washtenaw was ahead of the curve going all Democrat in 2004 instead of 2006 as you would think. But Republicans were able to take back 2 districts at the 2010 election. I was curious and checked the new districts that the 2012 state house districts. The Republicans really only have a shot at 1 district which is most of western Washtenaw county. But currently that district is represented by a Democrat. all 4 districts in Washtenaw county are Democratic.