Here is my first take on the results of the turnout and Mayor’s race in the Boston 2009 general election. I summarize the results from a neighborhood perspective, not by wards, since almost everyone can identify with a neighborhood name more easily than a ward number.
I’ll have a city council at-large results summary tomorrow.
Here’s a link to the turnout counts and rates by neighborhood.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tizoE2JMGeIrVUBMilOXerw&single=true&gid=0&output=html
Here is my take on the results of the 2009 primary election in Boston. I like to look at them from a neighborhood perspective, not by wards, since almost everyone can identify with a neighborhood name more easily than a ward number. Neighborhoods tend to be more homogeneous in voting patterns and demographics (the book “The clustering of America” explains this well) than wards. There are lots of numbers here, and since charts don’t format well here, I have links to public Google Docs of all my data:
Here’s a link to the turnout counts and rates by neighborhood.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArYPkyBtYlUKdDJzcG1mZnd3SF
Here’s a first pass at the Boston 2009 Primary results from a neighborhood perspective (lots more to come in the next few days). Sorry, but spreadsheets don’t format well here, so you have to see the data at the link below:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tC-o5gXDBVzxwpU12yKDa4A&output=html
The story of the mayor’s race:
Menino did very well in the non-white neighborhoods and decently in the white liberal-voting neighborhoods. Menino took enough votes away from Yoon there to keep Yoon out of second place.
2008 Boston Voter Turnout Analysis by Demographic Groupings
- by Bob LeLievre, bob@lelievre.net, last updated 12/17/2008
Here’s some info on turnout rates in the 2008 elections in Boston of various demographic groups. Here are the highlights:
Boston Voter Turnout by Neighborhood in the 2008 General Election
- by Bob LeLievre
Summary
Overall voter turnout in presidential elections in Boston has increased significantly in the last 8 years, from 188K in 2000 to 203K in 2004 to 234K in 2008. The biggest increases are in non-white / liberal-voting neighborhoods like Chinatown (up 95% since 2000), Grove Hall (up 60% since 2000), and Fields Corner (up 56% since 2000). The smallest increases are in white / conservative-voting neighborhoods like West Roxbury (up 4% since 2000), Readville (up 7% since 2000), and South-white Dorchester (up 12% since 2000).
Boston Election Results by Neighborhood in the 2008 General Election
- by Bob LeLievre, updated on 11/13/2008
Summary
Barak Obama got 79% of the votes in Boston. He got 95%+ of the votes in high non-white neighborhoods like Roxbury, Mattapan, Grove Hall, and the Blue Hill Avenue / Washington Street Corridor. He got about 60% of the vote in high white neighborhoods like South Boston, West Roxbury, Readville, and south-white Dorchester.
The No on Question 1 vote (to keep the state income tax) got 71% of the votes. The range was not as large as in the presidential race. It did best in liberal-voting neighborhoods like Jamaica Plain (81%), Melville Park / Ashmont Hill (77%) and Mattapan (76%). It did worst in high-income white neighborhoods like Back Bay, Beacon Hill, and the West End (about 64%), but these numbers are still pretty high.
The Yes on Question 2 vote (to decriminalize pot) got 65% of the votes. It did best student neighborhoods like Allston, Brighton, the Fenway and also in liberal-voting ones like Jamaica Plain and the South End (70% – 74%). It did worst in a mix of neighborhoods like Chinatown, East Boston, Hyde Park, West Roxbury, and south-white Dorchester (54% – 58%).
