Caprice's Maps and What-Not

[Caprice]

While it was effectively uncontested on the presidential question, the 1820 presidential election saw some Federalists chosen to the Electoral College, who chose a disorganized variety of vice-presidential candidates. Ohio and Kentucky are shown as unopposed as, while the positions of elector were contested, everyone agreed on the Monroe/Tompkins ticket, and results were spotty at best.

 

[Caprice]

Work begins again on Alabama state house districts, 1972, with the help of official census maps for cities. Issue being, however, rural areas.

 

[Caprice]

29 districts down, 76 to go.

 

[Caprice]

So I ended up co-running an election game on the other place; here's the first presidential election.




We're going on the second round of the contingent election, so who knows how long it'll take to resolve.

 

[Caprice]

I found a book of information on the unreformed California state legislature, including district maps, for less than $10, so I guess California maps are happening after finals season.

 

[Thande]

I found a book of information on the unreformed California state legislature, including district maps, for less than $10, so I guess California maps are happening after finals season.

Good luck with your finals and I look forward to that after them!

 

[Caprice]

Good luck with your finals and I look forward to that after them!

Thanks! As a teaser, here's a map of election districts in 1849 to the best of my ability:

 

[Alex Richards]

Is that an extremely thin Santa Barbara panhandle?

 

[Caprice]

Is that an extremely thin Santa Barbara panhandle?

Yes. Whoever drew the border description presumably expected the source of the Santa Ynez river to be north of where it actually is.

 

[Caprice]

The Maine state senate of 1820. There are official results, but only with the winning candidates (and those qualifying for the legislative contingent elections) and the total number of votes cast.

 

[Caprice]

Maine state house districts, 1914. Each district is given a unique color here, because by god were there so many non-contiguous districts. The biggest offenders are probably the red one in Androscoggin County and the yellow one in Sagadahoc County.

 

[Caprice]

I'm doing a Thing of the 1914 Maine state elections for a GIS class final - so far I've gotten this map of the gubernatorial election by town where the red value is the Republican vote, the blue value is the Democratic vote, and the green value is the Progressive vote. I intend to improve it from here, of course, but I've gotten this far.

Oakley C. Curtis - 62,076 (43.82%)

William T. Haines - 58,885 (41.57%)

Halbert P. Gardner - 18,226 (12.87%)

Percy F. Moore - 1880 (1.33%)

Frederick A. Shepherd - 597 (0.42%)

 

[Caprice]

Here's my table of the results by town:

Spoiler: Long image

 

[Caprice]

The Maine State Senate election, 1914. Even though the Democrats won the popular vote by about 1%, they still only won 14 seats to the GOP's 17. This would be the most seats they would win for another fifty years.

 

[Caprice]

The 1983 Virginia House of Delegates election, the first one since 1887 in which the Democrats did not win a supermajority.

 

[Caprice]

1985

1987

1989

 

[Caprice]

Update: Turns out there was an off-year election in 1982 that was the true unseater of the Democratic supermajority:

 

[Caprice]

The 1842-43 congressional elections, created for the benefit of an election game I'm in.

 

[Thande]

Fantastic work as always @Caprice.

 

[Caprice]

The first Hawaiian state house; I'll put together the 1959 election results some other time. The Democrats have controlled the state house since 1954 and the state senate since 1962.