Dallasfan65's MA Town Map Thread

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Many thanks to homelycooking! He combined the '64 results.

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Thanks HC!

@shua, sadly I do not have Vermont data going back that early. Which is a shame, since it'd be one of my favorites to do.

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And what a way to kick off my 4500th post!

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Again, great work.   

Just a friendly fyi though, I think you got New Haven wrong.   

Newbie mistake!

That should be 60% D, not 60% R. I must have been pretty burnt out. I'll rectify it tomorrow.

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Back to the Bay State for a bit.

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Looks like he didn't fare quite as well in the re-match.

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Solid work!

(Democratic wins in northern Grafton County - forestry/mining?)

Merci!

And yes, I think that is the most plausible explanation... my best example being Livermore, NH (now unpopulated)

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I'll tackle Maine later.

Credit: Al for having done Massachusetts, homelycooking for having done Connecticut.

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May not be doing this quite as often since I've been uploading stuff to the database, but I'll take requests.

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Here's some fun:

Amherst, Massachusetts:

1976: Carter, 61.46%
1972: McGovern, 67.72%
1968: Humphrey, 56.10%
1964: Johnson, 68.04%
1960: Nixon, 59.40%

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You're back!!!    

I was just on a 'break', got a little sideways with my timeline (which is very map-intensive.) Doesn't mean I can't do requests and stuff still.

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A great thread is resurrected! Marvelous.

Dallas, do you have data from state legislative races in 2006, 2008 or 2010?

I do not.

I could attempt to find them, though.

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Here's some fun:

Amherst, Massachusetts:

1976: Carter, 61.46%
1972: McGovern, 67.72%
1968: Humphrey, 56.10%
1964: Johnson, 68.04%
1960: Nixon, 59.40%

WOW. The whole Civil Rights debacle sure had an unforgiving impact on this town.

No, just a massive influx of college kids - Eugene McCarthy got 6% there in 1976.

Anyway, a work in progress: Be advised that the city splits were mostly guess work (except of course for the Boston district lumped in with Norfolk - presumably Hyde Park.)



1912 State Representative elections. To be completed tomorrow.

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And she is done!



State Representative races.

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A Tale of Three Cities:

Fall River:
1900: McKinley, 57.57%
1904: Roosevelt, 49.69%
1908: Taft, 51.67%
1912: Wilson, 39.09%
1916: Wilson, 50.04%
1920: Harding, 64.37%
1924: Coolidge, 56.62%
1928: Smith, 61.46%
1932: Roosevelt, 61.65%

New Bedford:
1900: McKinley, 63.24%
1904: Roosevelt, 58.08%
1908: Taft, 58.33%
1912: Taft, 41.37%
1916: Hughes, 52.31%
1920: Harding, 78.13%
1924: Coolidge, 66.17%
1928: Smith, 52.88%
1932: Roosevelt, 57.88%

Cambridge:
1900: McKinley, 50.99%
1904: Parker, 48.85%
1908: Taft, 51.54%
1912: Wilson, 48.67%
1916: Wilson, 55.64%
1920: Harding, 58.15%
1924: Coolidge, 49.47%
1928: Smith, 60.93%
1932: Roosevelt, 60.86%

Also, a personal favorite of mine (though not a city by any stretch of the imagination):

Heath:
1960: Nixon, 73.71%
1964: Goldwater, 51.79%
1968: Nixon, 72.72%
1972: Nixon, 65.51%
1976: Ford, 46.66%
1980: Reagan, 44.25%
1984: Mondale, 54.13%

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Can you give us one of Bedford Falls?

It's A Wonderful Life?

This is beautiful! Why the Republican strength in Springfield? And what happened in Haverhill to make the people there elect a Socialist?

Springfield was one of the more Republican-leaning towns at the time - Lodge even won it against Kennedy, if my memory serves me correctly.

The Haverhill election was a race between a dual-ballot line Progressive Republican and a Socialist. I'm supposing the Socialist received most of the Democratic vote as an anti-Republican vote and won, although I should check the previous and subsequent elections.

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Interesting results from Heath. It seems that McCarthy and Anderson delayed the inevitable swing to the Democrats. Was it all from an influx of college kids?

That would be Amherst, actually.

Heath was just the Vermont of it's time, but that's another subject.

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A Tale of Three Cities:

Fall River:
1900: McKinley, 57.57%
1904: Roosevelt, 49.69%
1908: Taft, 51.67%
1912: Wilson, 39.09%
1916: Wilson, 50.04%
1920: Harding, 64.37%
1924: Coolidge, 56.62%
1928: Smith, 61.46%
1932: Roosevelt, 61.65%

New Bedford:
1900: McKinley, 63.24%
1904: Roosevelt, 58.08%
1908: Taft, 58.33%
1912: Taft, 41.37%
1916: Hughes, 52.31%
1920: Harding, 78.13%
1924: Coolidge, 66.17%
1928: Smith, 52.88%
1932: Roosevelt, 57.88%

Cambridge:
1900: McKinley, 50.99%
1904: Parker, 48.85%
1908: Taft, 51.54%
1912: Wilson, 48.67%
1916: Wilson, 55.64%
1920: Harding, 58.15%
1924: Coolidge, 49.47%
1928: Smith, 60.93%
1932: Roosevelt, 60.86%

Also, a personal favorite of mine (though not a city by any stretch of the imagination):

Heath:
1960: Nixon, 73.71%
1964: Goldwater, 51.79%
1968: Nixon, 72.72%
1972: Nixon, 65.51%
1976: Ford, 46.66%
1980: Reagan, 44.25%
1984: Mondale, 54.13%

Cambridge went for Smith?
By damn near 61%?

Must be a lot more micks and papists living there then I gave the place credit for.

Cambridge was originally an industrial city, but as manufacturing decayed in New England became depressed and decided to be an intellectual haven instead. I guess it is like an early version of Duluth, although I am still a little too ignorant of Minnesota to make such a claim.

Thus why it has remained Democratic the whole time - as I've illustrated earlier in this thread, Eisenhower only lost it by a few hundred votes. Bill Weld won it in 1990, but not in 1994.

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Excellent work Dallasfan :-). Can you post a stats of how the city  of Fitchburg and the town of Lancaster voted?

Thanks!

Sure, how far back?

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At least to 1900 and include presidential primaries, senator elections, gubernatorial elections, with including Leominster as well.

Fitchburg will be done in a few of days.

In the mean time...

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Wow, I didn't expected Stevenson winning Leominster/Fitchburg if I'm reading the 1952 map correctly. From what I've occurred it's seem like a conservative Democrat districts.

Actually, that was his appeal.

Look at this map (courtesy of homelycooking)



Reagan won both of those despite winning by a lesser margin. Blackstone, MA voted for John Davis when literally no other town in Massachusetts did, yet gave Reagan 55% of the vote. (The first time it ever voted Republican for President, I believe.)