Biggest unexplained WTF results you've seen?

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I still don't understand Cruz winning the Maine Republican Caucus in 2016. The northeast was otherwise a poor region for him.

Maine having a caucus instead of a primary might have been a factor.

Interestingly, Maine was also the only New England state that backed Bush over McCain in 2000.

I know that Trump did worse in caucus states due to relying on voters who were not traditionally GOP. It just seems like Kasich would have been the non-Trump candidate who would have prevailed, or Maine would have voted like Massachusetts. I'm not sure why Maine Republicans would be significantly more conservative than Republicans in other New England states. The Bush/McCain vote indicates they randomly show tendencies of Republicans in the Western United States.

The libertarian/Tea Party faction was strong in Maine at the time, and Cruz was the best representative for them available.  Ron Paul had nearly won the Maine Caucus 4 yrs earlier.

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Tyler County, West Virginia 1996.
Manistee County, Michigan 1920.

There have been threads on these two before, but nobody has been able to figure them out exactly.

I suspect some kind of error for Tyler WV.  The total vote is something like 1000 (or 25%) less than what one would expect given elections before and afterwards.

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Can someone explain me how the democrats won the Senate elections in NJ and MI in 1922?

Edwards was governor of NJ and his stance against Republican efforts to enforce Prohibition in the state gave him popularity among those who had become alienated with the party of Wilson.