Carl Lostritto, Instructor
School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
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Electoral Mapping
I started by mapping the electoral votes alloted to each state and in what direction that state voted. A state like California with 55 electoral votes in an election that voted democratic would be 55 units above the horizon, while a state like Texas that has 34 votes and voted republican would be 34 units below. I then went back to the last 7 elections to see if there was any type of trend. What I found was that in recent history, other than the 8 years Clinton was in office, the country voted HIGHLY Republican. It has not been until recently that there was more disparity among the states. Finally, the color of each graph denotes who won that election, blue being democratic and red being republican.
This elections stats are based on estimates with no toss up states.
