HD137 Mapped Out: Primary-Style
The home district, mapped out in gawdy, politically meaningless colors to designate what kind of showing each candidate had. I don’t hide the fact that I work for one of those candidates (Gene Wu), so it should come as no surprise that a few points on the map are a bit Wu-centric in their interpretation. Basically, the colors go Blue for Wu; Green for Smith; and Orange for Madden. Winkler didn’t carry any precincts. Darker shades represent majorities. Medium shades denote 40% and above. Lighter shades denote smaller pluralities.
You can click it to big it. OR, for a non-static version, here’s the link.
In particular regard to some of the quirks here:
- Pct 256 (SW of Bellaire/Hillcroft): Madden won it by four votes. But both Madden and Wu got over 40% there. With all due apologies to Team Madden, I choose to highlight it as I do all the other 40+ precincts for Gene (medium blue).
- Pct 835 (the white box along Bellaire): it was a four-way tie with 1 vote each. I treated it the same way I treated Pct 546 to the north, which had no votes.
- Pct 432 (green box on the NE corner): Both Madden and Smith were above 30%. I treated it like a Smith plurality. Again, apologies to Team Madden. Similar to the above, it was a low-turnout box. So nailing a particular color treatment (or dual-color shading) wasn’t a priority for me. Looking at what things mean for the runoff … a bit more.
- Pct 421 (the light blue box that hooks into Sharpstown from the Westpark toll road): it was a low-turnout box that went 3 votes for Wu and 3 votes for Smith. I opted to treat it like a Wu plurality.
If you spot other oddities in the map’s treatment, pat yourself on the back. I’m busy trying to win an election here. This’ll likely be the last of the contest you hear out of me until August. The results are public. But how we get to the results are proprietary 