Maps of the 2008 US Presidential Election

Election results by state



Election results by states on a population cartogram



Election results by county



Election results on a county-level population cartogram



Election results by county with shades of purple in between to indicate percentages of votes



Election results by county with shades of purple on a population cartogram



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Here's a NYT map that shows the change in vote patterns between 2004 and 2008. An area that is blue indicates that the area shifted to more Democrat than it was four years ago.

(This was actually a pretty deceptive map, as it took up a huge part of the page and gave the impression Democrats won most of the country. In fact, if Bush won a county by 14% and McCain won it by just 7%, it went blue.)

Still, the essential lesson I take from this is that Republicans only increased their support in Arizona (McCain's state) and some of the more rural areas of the south. When I think of a black man running for president, it's not hard to imagine him doing poorly in those southern counties.

This map also reflects the deepening problems Republicans are having with Hispanics. Southern Texas and California and northern Nevada are the deepest blues on the map.

 

Thanks. Here is a link to it: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/05/us/politics/20081104_ELECTION_RECAP.html

 

Two other interesting map links:

USA Today

Washington Post

 

In all the places I've lived in the US, not a single county in which I resided went red this year.

 

How many counties in the US did you reside?

 

Off the top of my head, I count twelve counties in eight metro areas.

 

Great maps, thanks man.