County where Biden and Trump netted the most raw votes by state

[Roll Roons]

Biden:
Alabama: Jefferson
Alaska: Juneau?
Arizona: Pima
Arkansas: Pulaski
California: LA
Colorado: Denver
Connecticut: Fairfield
Delaware: New Castle
Florida: Broward
Georgia: DeKalb
Hawaii: Honolulu
Idaho: Blaine
Illinois: Cook
Indiana: Marion
Iowa: Polk
Kansas: Johnson
Kentucky: Jefferson
Louisiana: Orleans
Maine: Cumberland
Maryland: Prince George's
Massachusetts: Middlesex
Michigan: Wayne
Minnesota: Hennepin
Mississippi: Hinds
Missouri: St. Louis
Montana: Missoula
Nebraska: Douglas
Nevada: Clark
New Hampshire: Grafton
New Jersey: Essex
New Mexico: Bernalillo
New York: New York
North Carolina: Mecklenburg
North Dakota: Rolette
Ohio: Cuyahoga
Oregon: Multnomah
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia
Rhode Island: Providence
South Carolina: Richland
South Dakota: Oglala Lakota
Tennessee: Shelby
Texas: Dallas
Utah: Salt Lake
Vermont: Chittenden
Virginia: Fairfax County
Washington: King
Wisconsin: Milwaukee
Wyoming: Teton

Trump:
Alabama: Baldwin
Alaska: Mat-Su
Arizona: Mohave
Arkansas: Benton
California: Kern
Colorado: El Paso
Connecticut: Litchfield
Delaware: Sussex
Florida: Lee
Georgia: Cherokee
Idaho: Kootenai
Illinois: Madison
Indiana: Johnson
Iowa: Sioux
Kansas: Sedgwick
Kentucky: Boone
Louisiana: St. Tammany
Maine: Aroostook
Maryland: Carroll
Michigan: Macomb
Minnesota: Wright
Mississippi: Rankin
Missouri: St. Charles
Montana: Yellowstone
Nebraska: Sarpy
Nevada: Lyon
New Hampshire: Belknap
New Jersey: Ocean
New Mexico: San Juan
New York: Richmond (Staten Island)
North Carolina: Davidson
North Dakota: Burleigh
Ohio: Butler
Oklahoma: Tulsa
Oregon: Douglas
Pennsylvania: York
South Carolina: Horry
South Dakota: Pennington
Tennessee: Sullivan
Texas: Montgomery
Utah: Utah
Vermont: Essex
Virginia: Bedford
Washington: Benton
West Virginia: Raleigh
Wisconsin: Waukesha
Wyoming: Natrona

[ProgressiveModerate]

The R vote net out of Ocean County in NJ has been really impressive in recent years.

That whole list also shows how suburban/exurban areas are still really important to GOP support and they're not as exclusively rural as some like to say.

[Calthrina950]

By "netted the most raw votes", does this mean the county in each state which gave Biden or Trump the most votes they received out of any county in that state?

[Bismarck]

By "netted the most raw votes", does this mean the county in each state which gave Biden or Trump the most votes they received out of any county in that state?

No. It’s the county with the raw largest margin.

[Schiff for Senate]

By "netted the most raw votes", does this mean the county in each state which gave Biden or Trump the most votes they received out of any county in that state?

No. It’s the county with the raw largest margin.

This. So if a county casts 350,000 votes for Biden and 330,000 for Trump, that's only a 20,000 net for Biden. Whereas, if a county casts 250,000 votes for Biden and 120,000 for Trump, it has a much larger net for Biden (130,000 votes vs. 20,000), despite casting less votes for Biden (350,000 vs. 250,000).

[ProgressiveModerate]

Mohave County (and for that matter Yavapai County) are a lot larger than people tend to give them credit for, and both are relatively high turnout and seeing strong growth. Both have over 200k people as of the 2020 census and collectively land at about 450k. Collectively they singlehandedly net Trump 100k votes in 2020, which is essentially the same amount as Pima (Tucson) netted for Biden. I think what's annoying is a lot of the precincts in both counties are insanely large giving many the impression they're super sparse rural counties when that isn't true.

How much these counties continue to grow while staying extremely R will have a great impact on AZ's future politics, though it isn't neccessarily the best from a vote distribution standpoint since you essentially get R packs in Northwest AZ.

[If my soul was made of stone]

Mohave County (and for that matter Yavapai County) are a lot larger than people tend to give them credit for, and both are relatively high turnout and seeing strong growth. Both have over 200k people as of the 2020 census and collectively land at about 450k. Collectively they singlehandedly net Trump 100k votes in 2020, which is essentially the same amount as Pima (Tucson) netted for Biden. I think what's annoying is a lot of the precincts in both counties are insanely large giving many the impression they're super sparse rural counties when that isn't true.

How much these counties continue to grow while staying extremely R will have a great impact on AZ's future politics, though it isn't neccessarily the best from a vote distribution standpoint since you essentially get R packs in Northwest AZ.

Yavapai seems to be attracting a more "alternative" clientele as of late, what with Arcosanti and its share of Sedona and all the scenery, but Mohave is a strange, insular, deeply unsettling part of the world (Lake Havasu City *shudders*) which lacks any appeal outside of Mormons and Gosar types.