# An extremely detailed map of the 2016 election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 27, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656 "2018-07-27T03:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/1 "2018-07-27T03:14:17Z")
[An extremely detailed map of the 2016 election](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#11.37/39.930/-105.260) I live in a precinct that went 57 - 34 for Clinton. I work in a precinct that went 81 - 10 for Clinton. This is about what I expected but it’s pretty neat to see. Thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/2 "2018-07-27T04:09:23Z")
I might just spend all day on this. OK, so I am in a roughly 65% Hillary area. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/3 "2018-07-27T04:12:23Z")
Yeah, saw this at work around 1pm. Didn’t really get a lot of work done the rest of my day. ETA - live in a precinct that went 79% for Clinton, work in one that went 88% for Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/4 "2018-07-27T04:17:14Z")
83% Clinton 9.9% Trump. I assume the remainder were purity ponies throwing their vote away on a 3rd party. ---
**Author:** ![Shagunathor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Shagunathor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagunathor)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/5 "2018-07-27T04:40:00Z")
It is no surprise that in Wyoming about the only blue precincts are in the college town (Laramie), the place where Hollywood types go to retire (Jackson), and the Wind River Reservation. I have no ready explanation for the small blue precinct in Cheyenne. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/6 "2018-07-27T04:48:45Z")
Man, there’s a lot of red on that map. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/7 "2018-07-27T05:31:56Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > Man, there’s a lot of red on that map. Yeah, the best version I saw of this (on a much smaller and less fun scale) used dots on a white map to represent voters. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/8 "2018-07-27T05:38:20Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > Man, there’s a lot of red on that map. I was surprised at the big blue chunks of Alaska, thought’d it be all red. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/9 "2018-07-27T05:41:51Z")
And to add, do my eyes fool me or is Election District 40, in Alaska, geographically larger than any non-Alaska state in all of the rest of America? ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/10 "2018-07-27T06:56:25Z")
Indeed a fascinating map. It would be even more interesting if you: a)compared it with 2012 precinct data and mapped the changes in the vote shares. b)correlated vote shares with socio-economic data at the county level. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/11 "2018-07-27T07:02:00Z")
> [@Lantern](#): > > a)compared it with 2012 precinct data and mapped the changes in the vote shares. [DecisionDeskHQ](https://decisiondeskhq.com/data-dives/creating-a-national-precinct-map/)’s clunkier map (at the bottom of the linked page) has an option for that. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/12 "2018-07-27T07:40:10Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > And to add, do my eyes fool me or is Election District 40, in Alaska, geographically larger than any non-Alaska state in all of the rest of America? District 40 appears to have an area of 158,256 square miles (using the shapefile from [here](http://www.elections.alaska.gov/Core/districtmaps.php) if anyone’s interested). That means it is smaller than Texas and California but larger than all the rest. It looks even larger on that map because of the Mercator projection which makes areas appear disproportionately larger the closer they are to the poles. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/13 "2018-07-27T08:08:35Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > Man, there’s a lot of red on that map. Obviously because so many of the red precincts are rural and have large areas–though usually not that many voters. If you have a huge precinct with only five people–3 people for one candidate, 2 for the other candidate, it still takes on the color of one, and shows a 20% point difference, even though there’s only one more person for that candidate in the precinct. If you just look at the overall color impression of an area, you’re not using the map correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/14 "2018-07-27T11:40:55Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > [An extremely detailed map of the 2016 election](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#11.37/39.930/-105.260) > > I live in a precinct that went 57 - 34 for Clinton. I work in a precinct that went 81 - 10 for Clinton. > > This is about what I expected but it’s pretty neat to see. Thought I’d share. Fascinating! Thanks for sharing! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/15 "2018-07-27T11:43:41Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I was surprised at the big blue chunks of Alaska, thought’d it be all red. Possibly areas with a large native population although I don’t know how they vote in Alaska. Rural areas with high native population in the Southwest are one of the few places where you can see large swathes of blue. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/16 "2018-07-27T12:21:42Z")
My precinct went 76% Clinton, 17% Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/17 "2018-07-27T12:34:05Z")
This map dispels the myth that says the rich voted for Trump and the poor voted for Clinton. It appears that it’s the exact opposite — the rich voted for Clinton while the poor voted for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/18 "2018-07-27T12:57:47Z")
That map takes forever to load for me. As an aside, does anyone have a text or spreadsheet file of county-level results across the country? I’ve a hypothesis I’d like to test, that the more Trump voters there are in a county, the more strongly that county went to Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/19 "2018-07-27T13:02:18Z")
Wow, I’m never moving to Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/20 "2018-07-27T13:11:44Z")
You won’t have to, Kansas is coming for you. To you. Sorry, slip of the keyboard… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656.md?page=2)