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2012 Election Data on PolicyMap

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Remember last year’s election? I try not to. I remember one of the guys using the word “malarkey” during a debate. That was fun. And there was that guy who didn’t care who the president of Uzbekibekibekistanstan was. Oh right, and there were those binders full of women. Fun times.

But now you can relive the most important part: the results! The 2012 election data is now on PolicyMap!


Romney2Of course, no election map collection would be complete without the red and blue map that we know and love. You can access these maps for the presidential, senatorial, or congressional elections by going to the Demographics tab on PolicyMap, going down to Elections, and clicking on any of the indicators called “Margin of Victory”.

Because of the way PolicyMap works, the colorful “Margin of Victory” maps only give you a range of data, for instance, Hampshire County, West Virginia (home of the town of Romney, donchaknow) gave the former governor a 30-100% margin of victory.

But maybe you want to dig into the data a little deeper and see the actual results for each candidate. Then, in the Elections submenu, click on the specific party whose vote total/percentage you want to see.

Plus, you can see something cool there: the change in vote percent between the last election and this one. Below is the change in Obama’s vote percent from 2008 to 2012. The darker the orange, the more votes he lost; the purple areas are where he gained.

With the after effects of the recession, and his failure to make life sunshine, lollipops, and everything that’s wonderful, Obama didn’t do quite as well in 2012 as he did in 2008, and that’s illustrated above. The purple areas, though, are interesting. Those are the areas where people liked Obama better in 2012 than they did in 2008. Or maybe they really didn’t like Romney. It doesn’t make up much of the map… but it sure takes up a chunk of the Buckeye State.

Coming soon on PolicyMap: Complete data for Uzbekibekibekistanstan.




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