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U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2008

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Percentage of the popular vote by county that went to John McCain versus Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election
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The 2008 presidential election in the United States pitted Republican John McCain against Democrat Barack Obama. This layer portrays the popular vote results at the county and county-equivalent level. The map portrays the winner of the popular vote while data probing, placing the mouse over a county, displays the percentage of the vote for each candidate and the total number of votes cast. In the 2008 election, Mr. Obama won most of the counties containing major urban centers. He also won much of California, coastal Washington and Oregon, northern New Mexico, Central Colorado, much of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois. He also won southern Texas, the counties along the southern Mississippi River, a zone extending from central Mississippi through central Alabama, South Carolina and eastern North Carolina. He also won most of the counties on the eastern seaboard from Washington and Baltimore northeast through New England. Mr. McCain won most of the interior of the country outside of those areas previously mentioned. Mr. McCain won the Alaskan municipalities while Mr. Obama won the counties of Hawaii.
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U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2008

Class

Rank

Percent of land

Class

Rank

Percent

Hyderabad

Bangkok

Lima

Paris

Jakarta

Bogotá

Chennai

Moscow

Shenzhen

Bangalore

Rio de Janeiro

Lahore

Tianjin

Guangzhou

Manila

Kolkata

Buenos Aires

Lagos

Kinshasa

Karachi

Chongqing

Osaka

Mumbai

Beijing

Cairo

Mexico City

São Paulo

Dhaka

Shanghai

Delhi

Tokyo

Monterrey

Hanoi

Nairobi

Chattogram

Ankara

Guadalajara

Addis Ababa

Fukuoka

Saint Petersburg

Alexandria

Yangon

Abidjan

Barcelona

Jinan

Zhengzhou

Qingdao

Dalian

Johannesburg

Belo Horizonte

Khartoum

Toronto

Madrid

Harbin

Santiago

Pune

Dongguan

Foshan

Shenyang

Riyadh

Hong Kong

Baghdad

Dar es Salaam

Surat

Suzhou

Hangzhou

Kuala Lumpur

Ahmedabad

Wuhan

Xi’an

Ho Chi Minh City

Tehran

Nagoya

London

Chengdu

Nanjing

Seoul

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