National Presidential Primary County and State Maps (1912-2012)

[realisticidealist]

Here are maps of what I have been able to find so far for past presidential primaries. I was wondering if anyone could help find more data or if they knew where more data could be found. I've scoured the internet in all the usual places, State SOS and Election board websites, ourcampaigns.com, and online blue books, not to mention sending out probably hundreds of emails, and this is what I've come up with.

I have every primary state back to 1968 filled in (with a couple of exceptions) along with as much caucus data as I can find (most blank states, at least back until 1968, are caucus states and therefore have limited data available). Before 1968, I have much more limited data, but this is very much a work in progress, and I am adding new data as often as I can.

Occasionally you will see a state without variations in shade, which means that I do not know anything more than who won the county. Three states on the 2008 Democratic primary map have results displayed by legislative district rather than by county as this is the only data available (Alaska, Kansas, and North Dakota). North Dakota is also displayed as such on the 2008 Republican primary and 2004 Democratic primary maps. All Alaska maps are in House Districts.

2012 Democratic:


2012 Republican:


2008 Democratic:


2008 Republican:


2004 Democratic:


2000 Democratic:


2000 Republican:


1996 Democratic:


1996 Republican:


1992 Democratic:


1992 Republican:


1988 Democratic:


1988 Republican:


1984 Democratic:


1980 Democratic:


1980 Republican:


1976 Democratic:


1976 Republican:


1972 Democratic:


1968 Democratic:


1964 Democratic:


1964 Republican:


Some older maps:

1952 Republican:


1948 Republican:


1924 Republican:


1920 Republican:


1916 Republican:


1912 Democratic:


1912 Republican:

[realisticidealist]

Here are the state-by-state maps to go with the county ones (note that several states had both primaries and caucuses in various years):

2012 Republican:


2008 Democratic:


2008 Republican:


2004 Democratic:


2000 Democratic:


2000 Republican:


1996 Republican:


1992 Democratic:


1988 Democratic:


1988 Republican:


1984 Democratic: (Orange is Uncommitted)


1980 Democratic: (Green is Uncommitted)


1980 Republican:


1976 Democratic: (Uncommitted in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia)


1976 Republican:


1972 Democratic:


1968 Democratic:

[realisticidealist]

Make sure to check back on this thread from time to time as I am adding states whenever I can.

[Devilman88]

Very good work, my friend.

[RBH]

where were all the 1980 primary results posted at? (and the Ohio results)

[realisticidealist]

where were all the 1980 primary results posted at? (and the Ohio results)

I got all of the 1980 results except those for FL, GA, SD, KY, and MD from Rob who got them from a book whose title is escaping me. The FL, SD, and KY results were from SoS or Election Boards for those states while GA and MD were from state manuals/blue books/registers for 1981-82.

As for Ohio, 1996 came from the their SoS website, 1980 came from Rob, and 1984 came from the website Beyond Red and Blue.

[RBH]

Nebraska primary results can be found here: http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/epubs/S1200/S001.html

[realisticidealist]

Nebraska primary results can be found here: http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/epubs/S1200/S001.html

Thank you! I've now updated 1980 with these results and will continue to work on others. Is there any way that you can get information on Missouri?

[RBH]

The only Missouri primary before 2000 was 1988 and that's on the map right now.

[Senator Ben]

How were you able to get statewide for Virginia but no county data?

[realisticidealist]

The only Missouri primary before 2000 was 1988 and that's on the map right now.

I only know the county winners, not the percentages, however.

[RBH]

here's the county map


And a map of who finished second where


And the Republican primary map

[realisticidealist]

Thanks.

On the Republican map, which color is Bush and which is Dole?

[RBH]

Bush is blue, Dole is red

[realisticidealist]

Bush is blue, Dole is red

Good.

[RBH]

Here's the 1988 New Jersey primary results: http://www.nj.gov/state/elections/1988results/1988-primary-election-results-president.pdf

New Jersey had results through 1991 through last night, and through 1987 tonight

If you want to make the percentage thing easier, go here: http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264125

[RBH]

NV: the 1980-D and 1996-R results: http://web.archive.org/web/20061004001840/dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/nsla/archives/political/primary.pdf

MT: 1980-D http://www.archive.org/details/primaryofficial1980montrich

[realisticidealist]

Major update coming tomorrow!

[RBH]

ooh, where did the new 1988 results come from?

as for 1984

http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms2&rqsdta=050584

[realisticidealist]

ooh, where did the new 1988 results come from?

I went down to the UW library and found a book with a bunch of old returns in it (The same book Rob has). It was a reference book, so I copied a bunch of them that I thought were interesting. 

[RBH]

what is the book called?

[realisticidealist]

what is the book called?

United States Presidential Primary Elections 1968-1996: A Handbook of Election Statistics

[RBH]

The 3/8/1988 Democratic map is pretty interesting (MO, KY, OK, TX, AR, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, NC, TN, MD, and VA held their primaries on the same day for the only time ever)

[RBH]

Wisconsin results

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=turn&entity=WI.WIBlueBk1989.p0910&id=WI.WIBlueBk1989&isize=M
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=turn&entity=WI.WIBlueBk1989.p0911&id=WI.WIBlueBk1989&isize=M

probably not high priority since Bush won 80%+

[realisticidealist]

I updated it to show the current status of each map, and how many states I have yet to enter for each one.

Also, does anyone know anything about finding information for caucuses? I would imagine that such data would be scarce or non-existent and certainly not online.