How your neighborhood voted in 2016
Last week The New York Times published an interactive map showing the results of the 2016 presidential election at an incredible level of detail. A doctoral student at Washington State University, Ryne Rohla, assembled information about how people voted down to the voting district level. His work tallied information for each of the nation’s 168,000-plus voting districts. We’ve mined that data to show you some of the more interesting parts about the neighborhood even down to the block level. These results afford a granular and often revealing perspective on underlying trends and stories, showing how voting behavior can vary within neighborhoods and even from block to block.
Published here are a few hyperlocal insights gleaned from The Times’s map. 1. The 8-block precinct that starts on 60th Street, a block north of Central Park’s southeast corner, and extends to 64th Street and to Park Avenue to the east, was the Upper East Side’s least supportive of Clinton, with 68 percent, or 342 people, voting for her and 27 percent, or 134 people, for Trump.
2. Except for possibly one block, none of the voting precincts west of Lexington Avenue from 59th Street to 76th gave Clinton more than 76 percent.
3. By contrast, in the Upper East Side’s most pro-Clinton precinct, comprising 102-104 Streets and Fifth Avenue to Park, 97 percent, or 349 people, cast ballots for her and just 1.9 percent, or 7 people, voted for Trump.
4. Above 98th Street, from the East River to Fifth Avenue, in no precinct except one did she receive less than 88 percent of the vote. The single exception is the single-block precinct that goes from Second to Third Avenues and 106th to 107th Streets, where Clinton polled 85 percent (380 votes) to Trump’s 13 percent (60).
