
Though voter turnout in last Tuesday’s special election for an At-Large seat on the D.C. Council was comically—almost historically—low, how those sporadic voters split is still worth examining. The D.C. Board of Elections uploaded the raw data from last week’s vote to Google, creating maps that break down just how well each candidate did in each of the city’s 143 precincts. (h/t DeBonis)
The resulting maps aren’t terribly shocking, but they do emphasize where each of the candidates found their greatest bases of support. For each of the candidates that won precincts, the Board of Elections has a city map broken down by precinct with each one shaded in relative to how well they did there. Overall, Anita Bonds won 80 precincts, Elissa Silverman took 36, Patrick Mara won 21, while Matthew Frumin nabbed the final six.
For the victorious Bonds, a Democrat, the map is darkest green in wards 7 and 8, and slightly softer in ward 5. (She also won a plurality of votes in Ward 4.)
The second-place finisher, former Washington City Paper and Washington Post reporter Elissa Silverman, darkened the map the most in the core of D.C., particularly her home turf of Ward 6, and in Ward 1, where she took 44 percent of the votes.
Patrick Mara, the lone Republican in the race, finished a somewhat surprising third. He shaded the map most heavily in wards 2 and 3, but not so much in Ward 1, where he lives and spent a considerable amount of time campaigning.
And Matthew Frumin, another Democrat, only won six precincts throughout the city, but performed best in upper Northwest near his Ward 3 home.