1968 Presidential Election in Washington State, results by legislative district

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

LET THE SUSPENCE COMMENCE

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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.    

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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?

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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.   

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Guys? 

[Kitteh]

This is really interesting but so incomplete

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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. 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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!

[freepcrusher]

Nixon won Bellevue by a whopping 35 percentage points (65%-30%).  Questions?

was Bellevue a JBS stronghold back then?

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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!

[Antonio the Sixth]

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.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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.

[freepcrusher]

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.

Eastern Washington did elect democrats to congress for prolongued periods of time. Spokane area was represented by Tom Foley and the Tri Cities was represented by Mike McCormack for a few years in the 70s. That was probably in spite of their partisan affiliation and not because of it. Kind of like how Nebraska for 30 odd years had at least one dem senator (and even had two at one point)

[Antonio the Sixth]

Ah, I see. I thought Dem strength had lasted for a bit longer than that, similarly to other working-class regions like Appalachia or the CA central valley.

[bgwah]

Republican 43rd

Great maps

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Republican 43rd

Great maps

Thank you! 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

1972 will be up relatively soon.