Opinion of Imperial County voting to the right of Orange County

[有爭議嘅領土 of The Figgis Agency]

I'll just note that Orange County voted to the right of Imperial County in the senate elections. Orange voted for Garvey by 1%, while Imperial is a near tie that has Schiff ahead in the regular election by 2 votes, and Garvey ahead in the special election by 400 votes.

Still true even though Garvey apparently won Imperial for both the regular and the special.

https://twitter.com/politicsmaps/status/1864175929058009578
Pretty ominous for the northwestern 60%(?) of Orange County (including Santa Ana and Anaheim) to be marginally more R than the southeastern 40%(?) of Orange County that includes Irvine and a bunch of far-out R-leaning exurbs.

[New World Man]

Will Vance win Orange in 28?

[ProgressiveModerate]

I'll just note that Orange County voted to the right of Imperial County in the senate elections. Orange voted for Garvey by 1%, while Imperial is a near tie that has Schiff ahead in the regular election by 2 votes, and Garvey ahead in the special election by 400 votes.

Still true even though Garvey apparently won Imperial for both the regular and the special.

https://twitter.com/politicsmaps/status/1864175929058009578
Pretty ominous for the northwestern 60%(?) of Orange County (including Santa Ana and Anaheim) to be marginally more R than the southeastern 40%(?) of Orange County that includes Irvine and a bunch of far-out R-leaning exurbs.

A lot of it is just that Northern OC has established Conservative suburbs like Newport Beach and Yorba Linda that just don't really exist in Southern OC.

[有爭議嘅領土 of The Figgis Agency]

Orange County isn't a particularly uniformly affluent county by any means... Also its well-off Non-Hispanic White coastal areas are still quite R outside of Irvine.

Before all the actual Californians start calling for me to be canceled and de-platformed, I just want to clarify that Irvine is 1) clearly not on the coast and 2) according to what I assume was 2020 census data, majority/plurality Asian. (Source)


https://twitter.com/politicsmaps/status/1864548906412998984
Irvine is the slug-shaped light-blue indentation (part of CA-47) next to the light-red blob that doesn't touch the Pacific Ocean (CA-40). The heavily Chinese San Gabriel Valley comprises most of the left half of the blue "scrotum" that is CA-28.

[Steve from Lambeth]

Withholding comment until Gwen Stefani endorses

[Tekken_Guy]

I'll just note that Orange County voted to the right of Imperial County in the senate elections. Orange voted for Garvey by 1%, while Imperial is a near tie that has Schiff ahead in the regular election by 2 votes, and Garvey ahead in the special election by 400 votes.

Still true even though Garvey apparently won Imperial for both the regular and the special.

https://twitter.com/politicsmaps/status/1864175929058009578
Pretty ominous for the northwestern 60%(?) of Orange County (including Santa Ana and Anaheim) to be marginally more R than the southeastern 40%(?) of Orange County that includes Irvine and a bunch of far-out R-leaning exurbs.

A lot of it is just that Northern OC has established Conservative suburbs like Newport Beach and Yorba Linda that just don't really exist in Southern OC.

Mission Viejo, San Juan Capistrano, Rancho Santa Margarita all exist.

[He's turned to dust now, one of the chosen few]

I'll just note that Orange County voted to the right of Imperial County in the senate elections. Orange voted for Garvey by 1%, while Imperial is a near tie that has Schiff ahead in the regular election by 2 votes, and Garvey ahead in the special election by 400 votes.

Still true even though Garvey apparently won Imperial for both the regular and the special.

https://twitter.com/politicsmaps/status/1864175929058009578
Pretty ominous for the northwestern 60%(?) of Orange County (including Santa Ana and Anaheim) to be marginally more R than the southeastern 40%(?) of Orange County that includes Irvine and a bunch of far-out R-leaning exurbs.

A lot of it is just that Northern OC has established Conservative suburbs like Newport Beach and Yorba Linda that just don't really exist in Southern OC.

Mission Viejo, San Juan Capistrano, Rancho Santa Margarita all exist.

Yorba Linda + HB is a hell of a one-two punch of raw votes though, tbf.

[oldtimer]

I like the neatness of the 2024 California map.

Every coastal county, except 1, voted D.
Every inland county, except 2 (Sacramento and Napa technically touch water) and the ski resorts, voted R.