1968 Presidential Election in Washington State, results by legislative district

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Standby, the first maps will be up shortly, if all goes according to plan.  I just need to contact the guy who gave me the precinct data.

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LET THE SUSPENCE COMMENCE

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A big thank you to John M (who's currently assisting Daily Kos), for making all of this possible by giving me his precinct data!


Here's Skagit County,




Humphrey did best in Anacortes and Sedro Wooley (56-38% HHH and 53%-39% HHH, respectively), while Nixon won Mt. Vernon 52%-43%.  Today, Mt. Vernon is the most Democratic of the big towns in Skagit County, and has roughly four times the population it had in 1968 (7,921 peoples in '68, and 31,743 as of 2010).  The county as a whole went for Humphrey by less than a percentage point.  


Note:  Guemes Island is not officially an "incorporated area", but the precinct data had something for it, so I just filled it in.  And I couldn't match up any of the data for a few of these smaller places, like Alger (that one town in the NW part of the map).



Since most of you guys aren't interested in some small county in Washington, I'm just going to give you what I have for King County.    

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Here's what I've put together for King County so far.  Consider the map incomplete for now. 





HHH won Seattle 50%-41%, while Nixon won Bellevue by a whopping 35 percentage points (65%-30%).  Questions?

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I think I'm just going to do the results by LDs from now on, since those would probably give you a much better picture.   

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Guys? 

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This is really interesting but so incomplete

I know.    A bunch of blank places that you see on the map weren't even established municipalities back then.  Like Federal Way, that 'burb in the very southwest part of the map, wasn't even recognized by the census until 1990. 

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But, as I said, the precinct data was handily organized by state LD districts, so now I'm off to see Jackson to get some of his maps!

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1968 Presidential Election in Washington State, results by Legislative District





Two big thanks to go out.  First, to John M. (currently assisting Daily Kos) for the election data, and last but not least to Jackson for his map!

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So the East/West divide was already there in the 60s? I'd have thought the Democrats were much stronger in the east at that time.

Maybe in the fifties, but then Democrats started nominating more "modern" candidates like Kennedy, who didn't have the same populist vibe as previous contenders.

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Republican 43rd

Great maps

Thank you! 

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1972 will be up relatively soon.