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Is there a swing map of 2017 Senate and 2016 President in Alabama?

Politics Asked by user33250 on October 2, 2021

I want to see a picture of a county-level swing map of the 2017 Senate election for Alabama relative to the 2016 presidential election. This is to see how many points the election swung in Democrat candidate Doug Jones’s favor because of the sexual assault allegations against his opponent, Roy Moore.

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This is relatively easy to visualise using the county-level results from both the 2016 Presidential Election and the 2017 Special Senate Election. That being said, the use of this swing alone to quantify the influence of Roy Moore's sexual assault allegations on the election would be an oversimplification at best.

Nevertheless, no county in Alabama returned a lower percentage of Democratic votes in the 2017 election than in the 2016 election. The county with the lowest Democrat swing was Macon County, with an increase from 82.78% to 88.14%, a swing of 5.36%, while the county with the highest Democrat swing was Lee County, with an increase from 35.87% to 57.61%, a swing of 21.74%. The average swing was 11.04%, while the median swing was 10.76%.

The map below was created using geopandas & a shapefile from the Alabama Oil & Gas Board, available here.

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Answered by CDJB on October 2, 2021

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