DC Ward and Precinct Primary Results

My psuedo-state had its primary!
Here’s a spreadsheet of the unofficial results by each ward and precinct in the city of Washington. The Democrats are listed up top and the Republicans are below. (In Washington, it’s hard to tell if you have all the Republican votes, or if no one voted.)
On Democratic side, Obama creamed Hillary by more than 3-to-1. He won all eight wards and all 142 precincts. He even got majorities in every precinct too.
Because no one cares about us, there were no exit polls. So I got some demographic data off the web and ran a few regressions to see if I could estimate the breakdown.
My results show that African-Americans went for Obama by 86%, while whites and Hispanics both went 59% for Obama. Yep, that’ll pretty much carry you across the goal line.
There were 114,001 Democratic votes to just 5,803 Republican votes, that’s an edge of close to 20-to-1. Still, the GOP primary was for 19 delegates which seems absurdly high. By comparison, Virginia’s GOP primary had about 80 times the number of voters for just 63 delegates.
John McCain easily won the DC GOP primary, getting about four times as many votes as Mike Huckabee. Although Huckabee did pull out a narrow two-vote victory in DC’s 7th ward (56 to 54). Barack Obama got about 15,000 votes in the same ward.
The 9th Precinct in upper Northwest is DC’s most right-wing precinct which ain’t saying much. Kerry beat Bush in the 9th, 60%-38%. Still, it’s the Utah of Washington and McCain carried it with 87% of the vote.
I live in the 24th precinct where Obama beat Hillary by about 2-to-1. There were 881 Democratic voters to just 40 GOP votes. McCain got 29 votes. Ron Paul came in second with five. Huckabee had four and Guiliani got two.
Here’s a “heat map” of Obama’s support made by Adam Baily at DCist.com. The Nation’s Capital is clearly the ultimate blue state:

Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on February 13th, 2008 at 6:34 am

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