Some INSANE California County Maps from State Elections

[E-Dawg]

San Diego to the rest of California: YOU ARE ALL WRONG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_California_Secretary_of_State_election


Tulare-Kings-Orange Axis of Resistance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_California_Secretary_of_State_election


...What?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_California_Secretary_of_State_election



Solid Blue Central Valley Patriots (minus Kern):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_California_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election


What are Tulare and Kings Doing?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_California_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election


Sutter-Glenn-Kern Axis of Resistance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_California_State_Controller_election


HOW IS THIS FROM 2010?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_California_State_Controller_election

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I always thought the 28 presidential and 32 presidential side by side were funny.

1932 is even funnier cause it’s the first time 80 years a democrat even won a majority of the state.

[Sol]

These are not that crazy; they're just from an earlier time where Democrats did better in the Central Valley and worse in SoCal.

[Vice President Christian Man]

Seeing a blue Lassen County in 2010 is surprising to say the least.

[Thunder98 🇮🇱 🤝 🇵🇸]

Seeing red Santa Barbara and Sacramento Counties in 2010 is very weird to see today.

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Here's a crazy NY one. As recently as 1998, Tompkins and Albany voted for a losing Republican.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_New_York_Attorney_General_election

[E-Dawg]

Here's a crazy NY one. As recently as 1998, Tompkins and Albany voted for a losing Republican.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_New_York_Attorney_General_election

I've tried to find a New York election where the Democrat won by carrying NYC and no counties outside of it. I have found some very close results to that, but no cigar. I really hope an election where that happened in is out there somewhere.

[Roll Roons]

Here's a crazy NY one. As recently as 1998, Tompkins and Albany voted for a losing Republican.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_New_York_Attorney_General_election

Tompkins was very Republican before the 1980s. Albany voting for a losing Republican is the big outlier, because it's traditionally been the bluest county in NY outside of NYC.

[Electric Circus]

Spitzer's first victory is a wonderfully strange map, and maybe even more so than it seems at a glance through the prism of our politics in 2024.

Skip back one cycle, and his predecessor does significantly better across Upstate. She only wins a couple of counties, but it's not a total blowout. This was despite being outed as a lesbian only one week before the election, for which her narrow loss is usually blamed.

(e: On reflection, I'm not sure that "outed" is the right word - maybe someone else knows the history here better - but the borough president of Staten Island said she wasn't fit to serve on account of her sexuality. This made news of something that voters wouldn't necessarily have been aware of given that it wasn't standard for coverage to empasize that at the time.)

Spitzer entirely made up for those lost Upstate votes, and then some, with a strong swing in places within spitting distance of a Metro North station and southward.

Go forward one cycle, and Spitzer comes close to sweeping every county in the state.

[lfromnj]

2006 Arnolds win had the same county map by winner as 2020 Prop 16.

[Senator Incitatus]

Spitzer's first victory is a wonderfully strange map, and maybe even more so than it seems at a glance through the prism of our politics in 2024.

Skip back one cycle, and his predecessor does significantly better across Upstate. She only wins a couple of counties, but it's not a total blowout. This was despite being outed as a lesbian only one week before the election, for which her narrow loss is usually blamed.

(e: On reflection, I'm not sure that "outed" is the right word - maybe someone else knows the history here better - but the borough president of Staten Island said she wasn't fit to serve on account of her sexuality. This made news of something that voters wouldn't necessarily have been aware of given that it wasn't standard for coverage to empasize that at the time.)

Spitzer entirely made up for those lost Upstate votes, and then some, with a strong swing in places within spitting distance of a Metro North station and southward.

Go forward one cycle, and Spitzer comes close to sweeping every county in the state.

I don’t think that’s quite accurate. According to contemporary reporting in the Times, Burstein actively campaigned on being a lesbian during the primary, and it was a contributing factor to her win in a tough race. I think the Molinari comments were just considered rude and distracting; they might have contributed to her loss by drawing attention away from traditional bread-and-butter issues which would favor a Democrat. Vacco’s win was probably attributable primarily to Pataki’s win on crime-related issues.

[kwabbit]

It doesn't seem like the CV had a farm crisis backlash to the GOP like the Midwest did. The White vote was just less polarized then. Can anyone speak to the effect of the farm crisis there?

[warandwar]

It doesn't seem like the CV had a farm crisis backlash to the GOP like the Midwest did. The White vote was just less polarized then. Can anyone speak to the effect of the farm crisis there?

entirely different agricultural industries, and the crisis was in part shifting the midwest to an industrial model closer to the central valley's

[kwabbit]

It doesn't seem like the CV had a farm crisis backlash to the GOP like the Midwest did. The White vote was just less polarized then. Can anyone speak to the effect of the farm crisis there?

entirely different agricultural industries, and the crisis was in part shifting the midwest to an industrial model closer to the central valley's

Yeah, my perception was that the CV has large, plantation style farms while the Midwest has small family farms. Not in the sense of slavery, but just a huge farm with tons of workers on it.

[warandwar]

It doesn't seem like the CV had a farm crisis backlash to the GOP like the Midwest did. The White vote was just less polarized then. Can anyone speak to the effect of the farm crisis there?

entirely different agricultural industries, and the crisis was in part shifting the midwest to an industrial model closer to the central valley's

Yeah, my perception was that the CV has large, plantation style farms while the Midwest has small family farms. Not in the sense of slavery, but just a huge farm with tons of workers on it.

Past tense for midwest there - Reagan killed them all in the 80s

[Schiff for Senate]

Only crazy one there was 2010...a county as rural Republican as Lassen voting for the Democrat in a recent red wave election is wild.