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Arizona LD 26 Blowout
HikerGuy83:
The house I purchased in the Mesa area is a smaller house in an older section of town. I have not paid much attention to legislative district until recently.
It is in LD 26.
On November 3rd 2020, the two democrats got roughly 36,000 votes each. The two republicans got approximately 16,000 votes each. That is a little over 30% of the vote.
In the senate, the democratic nominee slaughtered his GOP opponent by about the same percentage.
In neighboring LD 25, the GOP senator won with 58% of the vote. The two GOP members of the house won against one democrat by about the same margin.
What's with LD 26 ?
I was incredulous.
So I did some digging.
LD 12 to the east of 25.....is GOP heavy. I don't think the democrats ran anyone for the house. The same for LD 16.
In LD 24, the GOP was creamed. In LD 10, the GOP didn't bother.
I am going to go back and look at vote talleys.
This was interesting.
Cyber Liberty:
I see the problem. Here's the map of LD 26:
Tempe is ASU, a College Town. The really large part in the Northeast is the Fort McDowell Indian Res (leftist). Most of the part that's Mesa is the "Latino" area, the oldest part of town. Bottom line: Not Happy Hunting Grounds for Republicans. There is a "nice" part of Mesa in the district, I hope that's where you live.
LD 25 is all dense tract development with homes around $500K. A lot of people who can afford (and tolerate) houses like that, heavy advantage GOP.
LD 12 is a lot like 25 in demographics for the most part in that part of Gilbert, Queen Creek (part of QC is in Pinal County) is still mostly farmland, but there's a lot of new growth there. Call QC a mixture of farmers and a bedroom community.
LD 16 surprises me a bit if it's heavy GOP, that's Apache Junction, again not part of Maricopa County. There are a lot of snowbird retirees living in mobile homes, so it's only a small surprise.
I don't know where 10 or 24 are. My old district is LD 17. They went for Hillary in 2016, part of why I was happy to vacate the premises when I did. Looks like Mesnard, the Republican got Senator, but we split the Representatives with the Rats.
HikerGuy83:
I would be upset if the GOP has basically ceded these districts.
I will start checking on committee precinct people.
Do you know where to find the listing for the precincts (and where to find a precinct map) ?
Cyber Liberty:
--- Quote from: HikerGuy83 on November 10, 2020, 12:05:27 am ---I would be upset if the GOP has basically ceded these districts.
I will start checking on committee precinct people.
Do you know where to find the listing for the precincts (and where to find a precinct map) ?
--- End quote ---
Probably on the GOP website for the Peoples Republic of Maricopa. It may take a phone call. As a citizen you are entitles to know who the PCs are. When you established residency you can get yourself appointed as a PC. Easy peasy, just contact the Chair of your LD's (that's easy to find out) and he'll appoint you. There are always vacancies.
The_Reader_David:
You have heard of gerrymandering -- the ideal of which is to create a (very) few absurdly safe districts for the other party, and lots of merely safe districts for one's own party. With modern computing power and precinct level data this can usually be done without creating absurdly shaped districts like the eponymous salamander-shaped district of yore.
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