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DS0816
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« on: February 04, 2016, 07:25:38 PM »

What state voted for the winner in the largest number of presidential elections?

What state voted for the loser in the largest number of presidential elections?

What state voted for the winner in the largest percentage of presidential elections it participated in?

What state voted for the loser in the largest percentage of presidential elections it participated in?


I have a thread right here:

@ https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=222186.0

I'll let the thread's OP have at it.

And Alabama and Mississippi both went 20 years and six cycles (1948 to 1968) of getting it "wrong" during presidential elections won by both parties.
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DS0816
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« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2016, 02:30:39 PM »

States 100 years of age, at a minimum, which have always carried for winning Republicans: Arizona, North Dakota and, most famously, Ohio.

States 100 years of age, at a minimum, which have always carried for winning Democrats: None apply. (In 2008, Arkansas and Missouri broke the pattern. But, since 1988, winning Republicans and Democrats have seen those previous states' patterns break as the electoral map pretty much became an inverse of where the two parties' base states used to be. George Bush, in 1988, became the first winning Republican to not carry Iowa. Bill Clinton, in 1992 and 1996, became the first winning Democrat to not carry Texas. George W. Bush, in 2000, became the first winning Republican to not carry Illinois and Vermont and, in 2004, likewise New Hampshire. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first winning Democrat to not carry Arkansas and Missouri.)
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« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2016, 04:04:49 PM »

New Mexico has the best record historically with having carried for presidential winners. It first voted in 1912 and sided with only one loser in the popular vote [and Electoral College]: 1976 Gerald Ford.

Nevada has voted the same as New Mexico with just one exception: 2000, a year which gave split results with one winner of the popular vote [who carried New Mexico] and one winner of the Electoral College [who carried Nevada].

But in looking at states not as recently perceived on bellwether status, there is a close connection New Mexico has to Illinois. There have been no more than two elections in which these two states voted differently: 1916 and 2004. So, from 1920 to 2000—an 80-year period of 21 presidential election cycles—New Mexico and Illinois have carried the same. As they did in 1912. As they did in 2008 and 2012. That's a total of 26 presidential election cycles in which New Mexico and Illinois have carried the same in 24. And Illinois has the second-best historical record with having carried for presidential winners.
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