TJ's Result Thread

[Linus Van Pelt]

Nice - I was wondering about a map like this, but all the ward changes after the census made Dave's App unusable for the purpose.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Almost all Madison maps are variations of the above, but the 2011 mayoral election involved a very different pattern. The incumbent Dave Ciezlewicz was very narrowly (50-49) defeated by challenger (though former mayor) Paul Soglin. Here Soglin is in red and Cieslewicz is in blue; the deepest shade is 65+ so things are not drastically polarized. Both candidates would be very much on the left in a national context but their appeal split along basically town-gown, class-based lines because of differences in emphasis between traditional D economic themes and more environmental/urbanist ones.

Generally, the overall pattern is basically that:
- academic-oriented areas (most obviously the campus but also the professorial neighborhoods to its west) went clearly for Cieslewicz
- the south side minority neighborhoods and the traditionally somewhat more working-class areas on the north and east sides went clearly for Soglin
- areas that are basically white-collar but only moderately university-oriented (the ultra-D isthmus and west side suburbia) tended to be very close.



(made with Dave's Redistricting App)