Bob LeLievre's Blog – "The" source for Massachusetts election data

November 3, 2009

Initial Boston 2009 General Election Results

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — Bob LeLievre @ 6:55 pm

Detailed precinct results are usually  available sometime Wednesday morning after Election Day.  Once I receive them, I’ll start my analysis.  The Boston Election Department does not release the data in spreadsheet format, so it requires lots of data entry (254 precincts times the number of candidates).

I hope to have something ready on Wednesday afternoon and full results by sometime on Thursday.   In the meantime, the unofficial results are available from the city at this link:

http://www.cityofboston.gov/elections/currentelections/default.asp

Anyone who has early precinct results can speed up the process by emailing  them to me at:

BobLeLievre@gmail.com

September 28, 2009

Boston 2009 Primary Election – Complete Summary of the Numbers

Filed under: Election Results — Tags: , , , , — Bob LeLievre @ 7:13 pm

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:

The Turnout:

Here’s a link to the turnout counts and rates by neighborhood.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArYPkyBtYlUKdDJzcG1mZnd3SF

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