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« on: February 03, 2011, 10:22:37 PM »
California and New Jersey changed their borders mid-decade, so the data doesn't quite work for the districts on this map. I could adjust the borders, but I don't have the time at the moment.

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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2011, 10:44:40 PM »
« Edited: February 03, 2011, 10:48:03 PM by Pacific Councilor realisticidealist »
He picked up a district near Detroit as well. Those were the only four districts to switch to Carter.
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2011, 11:09:23 PM »
Here is a close-up of New York City. 1976 is on the left and 1980 is on the right.
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2011, 11:30:59 PM »
Quote from: bgwah on February 03, 2011, 11:14:58 PM
How did you determine the CD borders on the map? WA-8 wasn't even created until 1982.

The information was in a book at my library by Congressional Quarterly. It contained the maps for the 1981-1991 CDs, and had the election results for each area as if those CDs had existed during these elections. They supposedly went back a looked at precinct results to calculate them.
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« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2011, 11:36:57 PM »
Geez people, read the title. Tongue
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« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2011, 11:37:59 PM »
One good thing about having it this way is that it makes it really easy to compare with 1984 and 1988.
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« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2011, 11:39:53 PM »

Most of the population of most of Arizona's CDs was in Maricopa County, which went heavily against Carter. The counties he won had very little population.
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« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2011, 08:50:52 PM »

He barely won both times, each with less than 50%.
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