Friday, November 7, 2008

Votes by neighborhood

One more post on the election, but tied to Westside real estate. Suppose you'd like to know the political leanings of a neighborhood before you buy a house there. How would you find that out?

This week's election gives the data. The County Registrar-Recorder's Statement of Votes Cast - Precinct Bulletins give one total page for each precinct, quite a fine level of detail. (Part 2 includes the City of Los Angeles; Part 1 includes smaller cities including Santa Monica).

How do you find precinct numbers? Precinct Maps by District provides a search for detailed precinct maps. You could select District Type = AREA DESCRIPTIONS and District = SANTA MONICA-VENICE, for example, then download the individual map PDFs. If you do, I've made it easier with the map above, showing the map numbers in our part of the Westside.

Here are some sample precincts:

Pacific Palisades
900 1391 (west of Temescal, south of Sunset) - 71% Obama
900 5919 (Huntington Palisades, west of Chautaqua) - 59% Obama

Santa Monica
625 0128 (north of Marguerita, 7th to 14th) - 78% Obama
625 0031 (north of Wilshire, south of Washington, 22nd to 26th) - 79% Obama
625 0083 (Sunset Park, Ocean Park to Ashland, 11th to 18th) - 83% Obama

Mar Vista
900 1562 (MV Hill, east of Centinela, west of Inglewood, north of Palms) - 74% Obama
900 1560 (west of Centinela, east of Cabrillo, north of Palms) - 69% Obama

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yet another reason to leave the westside.

Anonymous said...

good riddance

Anonymous said...

Hey, this is great since the majority of the Obama voters here will see their taxes increase over the next 4 years!

Spreading the wealth around is a good thing.

Anonymous said...

"Hey, this is great since the majority of the Obama voters here will see their taxes increase over the next 4 years!"

True, except for 95% of the renters in SM, which make up 70% of the city's population.

Anonymous said...

yes
the renters often have very low incomes - they work off the books for cash

Anonymous said...

check out the stats - average income of homeowners in the 90402 is over $400 thousand a year

Average income of renters south of the ten is under $50k a year

two different communities in SM - totally totally different

Anonymous said...

you can't call these communities different in their voting patterns

you can go to la mesa where houses routinely sell for eight million to all cash buyers

and then you can go to the neighborhood near SAMO where there is lots of crime

know what? the voting patterns are exactly the same - both neighborhoods vote 80% democratic

santa monica is united in that one way

Anonymous said...

"Yet another reason to leave the westside."

Yes, please do leave.

Anonymous said...

Probably the same voting pattern for Jimmy Carter too. There should be a quick wake up call for all the "Bumper Sticker Intellects".

Must be nice to afforda Lexus Hybrid to change the world.

You have to watch the South Park "Smug Alert". It is exactly what San Francisco and Santa Monica is about.

You guys are embarrising.

Anonymous said...

"You have to watch the South Park "Smug Alert". It is exactly what San Francisco and Santa Monica is about."

OK, bye-bye then. Move to Alabama and stop reading a blog about people who'd like to settle on the Westside of LA, please.