TX Prop 2 Results Map (by County)

by KTinTX, Mon Nov 14, 2005 at 08:55:33 AM EST

In the first of a series that I'll be working on, because I haven't seen any in state publications as of yet, here is a map of Prop 2 results by County, the Texas Gay Marriage Amendment. Be aware this one is colored differently than future ones will be.  Because Travis County was the only county to vote against the Amendment, the blue v. red coloring is based off of the degree below or above the statewide "YES" vote of 76%.

As can be seen here, support for the amendment increases the farther away one gets from an urban area.  (Lubbock, Abilene, Midland/Odessa, and Laredo all have an impact, even in heavily Pro-Prop 2 areas.  A secondary effect at play would be density of Hispanic population (i.e. border) having a moderating effect on support for the Amendment.  In fact, other blogs have reported on pockets of outright opposition to Prop 2 in certain Hispanic areas.  Here in Austin, African-American and Hispanic precincts went against Prop 2, counter to what many thought would happen. I'm working on a Travis map as well, but until then...

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Sent to me by two readers already, here is a downloadable precinct by precinct map of the Travis County (Austin) vote on Proposition 2 done by city demographer Ryan Robinson.  The Austin Chronicle will have an expanded precinct map in this Thursday's issue which will have results broken down by state house district.

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karl
i saw this map on BOR the other day and d/l the excel sheet (although i haven't gotten a chance to look at it yet).

what i'd like to see - which maybe you can obtain - is a 1.  breakdown, county by county, of the following:
how many registered voters in each county, and in these counties, how many registered dems versus registered repubs

  1.  breakdown, county by county, of how many of those registered voters showed up at the polls
  2.  county by county breakdown of prop 2 votes (which you have here)

i'd like to compare them because i am very curious to know how many democrats voted FOR prop 2.
by annatopia 2005-11-14 09:25AM | 0 recs
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Re: karl
I'm not sure Texas registers voters by party (might be wrong) but my Collin County Voter Registration card does not list my party affiliation. On the other hand, the map looks about right...the larger more diverse counties (Bexar, Travis, Dallas and El Paso) would be expected to fall below the average. But I am very surprised at Tarrant county (home of Fort Worth) being above the average. Tarrant used to be very democratic (even more than Dallas), during the days of Jim Wright.
by dantata 2005-11-14 09:44AM | 0 recs
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Re: karl
This is correct, there is no party registration in Texas.  The only thing one can attempt to go by is how people voted in party primaries, but this data isn't the best because as Texas has changed over the last 3 cycles, you have people voting in both primaries (and look for next year's Governor's race to fuck that up even more).

And I know in many rural area, Democrats vote in the Republican primary for local offices because that is where local races are decided.

So for one, the data won't be all that accurate, and two the data that is there I can't get my hands on, and three, that would be a hell of a lot of database matching that I don't have time to work on. :(

But if someone out there does.. that would be awesome, I agree.

by KTinTX 2005-11-14 09:55AM | 0 recs
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wait a minute
i know you don't have to select a party, but i'm a registered democrat.  it's stamped on my card and everything.
by annatopia 2005-11-14 11:20AM | 0 recs
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It's stamped on there because when you voted in the primary, they usually stamp it.  But it's not registered anywhere, other than that you have voted in the Democratic primary.  This was why in 2002, sure, there were more "registered" Democrats in Texas than Republicans, but only because more people voted in that primary than the other.  There is no roll of 'registration' though.
by KTinTX 2005-11-14 02:34PM | 0 recs
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i know why it's stamped, silly
what i'm saying is that yes, you can register as a democrat, repub, indepedent, or other in this state.  there's a freakin' check box on the voter registration card.  so somewhere there have got to be some numbers that we could compare to the nifty map you posted.
by annatopia 2005-11-15 07:24AM | 0 recs
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Re: i know why it's stamped, silly
I don't know what form you are using Anna. There is NO party registration box on any of the forms I've used in Travis of Gillespie County.  There is no party registration choice in Texas. Period.
by KTinTX 2005-11-23 02:54PM | 0 recs
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Re: karl
I left a comment below.  Byron was looking at some Dallas info and had Republican precincts voting against it.  And oddly from what he said, the most republican commissiors precinct voted the most against Prop 2.  He'll have more on that soon which will be up on BOR.
by KTinTX 2005-11-14 09:56AM | 0 recs
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cool, i'll keep my eyes open for it
by annatopia 2005-11-14 11:19AM | 0 recs

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