Washington 2008 President by Precinct

[ElectionAtlas]

Hi,
I know this is Alcon's favorite subject, but when I ran across all of the Washington State Precinct Shapefiles in one place, I couldn't help myself.  Below is the 2008 General Election for President for the entire state of Washington by precinct: (note: open in new window to see full-size)



Here is the zoom of Puget Sound



There are some differences between the precincts in the 2008 data and the shapefiles - perhaps some changes since 2008?  Alcon, do you have 2008 shapefiles specific to 2008 (Snohomish, King, Clark, Pierce)?

Note, I've also added a bunch of the individual county maps to the Atlas Washington pages.

Enjoy,
Dave

[ElectionAtlas]

Sweeeet!  There's definitely an elections geek at the SoS's office who has kicked their data collection into high gear.  They have some amazing stuff, although alas no shapefiles for 2009 yet.

I can probably get correct 2008 shapefiles for most counties.  I can see you definitely need Clark, King and Snohomish; and San Juan, which appears to be missing.  How off is Pierce?  We have some voter privacy suppression but everything else looks all right.  Any other needed counties?

I also can probably hook you up with a water shapefile that makes Mason look less screwy.

Great - possibly Benton and Skamania - most counties were "perfect" - at least the precincts lined up with the descriptions in the files.  Pierce isn't too bad - not sure how many changed boundaries.  San Juan shape file is awful though... all the water is included.  Pacific and Skagit are also that way, but I purged the water with the county shapes in the image. 

[ElectionAtlas]

Thanks Alcon - interesting - that makes more sense - the shape file seems to have precincts 306 and 307 backwards.

Dave

[ElectionAtlas]

Here is another version (corrected Skamania), but also with "place" shapes overlaid.

Enjoy,
Dave