Urban voters tend to vote Democrat. What were the largest cities or towns that voted Trump (i.e. that Trump won the most votes in) in the 2016 election?
Houston, I believe.
Donald Trump got 52% of the vote in Houston in 2016.
Cite: 2016 United States presidential election in Texas - Wikipedia
Houston, in terms of population, is America’s 4th largest city, behind New York, LA, and Chicago.
Cite: https://ballotpedia.org/Largest_cities_in_the_United_States_by_population
I didn’t check the vote totals in NY, LA, or Chicago, but what do you think?
Trump also won Phoenix, Arizona.
Cite: 2016 United States presidential election in Arizona - Wikipedia
A 3-D representation of the vote by county, which is not what you asked for but close and easy to read. https://blueshift.io/election-2016-county-map.html
[Sorry, I accidentally did that thing that was mentioned in ATMB involving the TAB key which posts one’s post when it isn’t finished].
52% (52.23%) was what Trump won in the state of Texas, not the city of Houston.
Here’s a map of Texas showing results by county and number of votes by size and candidates by color: Large [Smaller sizes]
It looks like Clinton did well in the cities.
Houston is in Harris County, which voted for Clinton (53.95%) over Trump (41.61%).
This may be correct. Phoenix is in Maricopa County, which voted for Trump over Clinton.
Trump: 747,361 / 48.63%
Clinton: 702,907 / 45.74%
Here’s the map. I’m not sure how many of those county votes came from outside the city of Phoenix itself, though.
That’s a really good map. Maricopa County stands out as the tallest red county, albeit a very pale red.
Here are population statistics for Maricopa County and Phoenix.
Maricopa County: 4.307 million (2017)
Phoenix: 1.626 million (2017)
So it does seem possible, perhaps even probable, that the city of Phoenix itself voted for Clinton. Trump got 44,454 more votes than Clinton in the county as a whole, which is not a lot.
I think you have seriously incorrect beliefs. Houston most definitely did not go to DJT. Nor did NY, LA or Chicago. Not by a long shot.
As to Texas, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas went for Clinton as well. The largest city in Texas that went to DJT was most likely Fort Worth. It is difficult finding precise totals for these cities since most of the information is by county. But Harris, Bexar, Travis and Dallas counties all went strongly to Clinton. Tarrant County went to Trump.
Since these cities contain the bulk of the population for each of these counties, it is logical to conclude the vote totals for these cities line up with how the counties went.
If it’s not Phoenix, it could be Jacksonville. Trump won Duval County, 95% of which is the city of Jacksonville (the city and county governments are consolidated, though, so it has a relatively small share of urban voters). But it was close enough that the other 5% in the remaining cities could matter.
I don’t know how big Milwaukee is, but Trump won it. (Thanks a lot, Wisconsin.)
No, Clinton won Milwaukee.
Also: As always with cities, we need to define our terms. City limits? Metro areas?
Most of the data I’ve seen is by counties, and this sometimes jibes with one of these definitions, and sometimes doesn’t.
Well damn. Apologies, Milwaukee. I like your Summerfest.
My city, La Crosse, (a small city on the west side of Wisconsin), BARELY had a majority for Clinton. (Well, the city had a bigger majority for her, but the county barely did.) it was a wild and crazy day…I spent the morning knocking on doors for Hilary (the lack of enthusiasm and positive energy at the local campaign HQ was a disturbing early sign), and then spent the afternoon as a trainer volunteer assistant at our polling place — after putting on my scrupulously neutral hat, of course.
Sorry for the hijack.
Any city with a sizeable minority community upwards of 40% or more most likely went to Clinton, even if just barely. Trump was just that unpopular among Black and Hispanic voters. My WAG would be one of the larger ‘suburbs’ of Dallas, like Ft Worth (okay, not really a suburb) or Arlington.
Fort Worth is definitely a city in its own right, and getting quite big. It is about the same size as Jacksonville. (Almost 900,000).
It’s looking like these two cities are about tied for the factual answer to the OP. If we have to decide between them, I’d give the prize to Fort Worth, since Jacksonville’s vote was so close to a tie.
Out of curiosity, how much of Duval Co is Jacksonville? As I recall from my brief time living in FL, Jacksonville was pretty damn big geographically - like even larger than Los Angeles, I wanna say.
Sorry for the bad read on a quick search. Thanks for the correction.
It’s all good.
Chicago and Cook County went resoundingly for Hillary, of course. But I was heartened by the fact that Du Page County also went strongly for Clinton.
At one time, not in the too-distant past, Du Page was one of the reddest counties in the country.