My wife tricked me into a partial-weekend project to try to get all the primary\/caucus results to-date on a map (the whole us). This is challenging since not all states use counties as boundaries for aggregate results. I’m still piecing together some shapefiles for the primary\/caucus summation boundaries for a couple remaining states but I didn’t want to let the data source for the election results go without a mention. <\/p>\n
The bestest part of the `iframe` below (which can be busted with [this link](\/projects\/primaryplotting.html)) is the CNN JSON link. You can discover those with Developer Tools on any modern browser. Here’s [the rest](https:\/\/gist.github.com\/hrbrmstr\/25a53e2fcaee2aafa908) of those links (using a gist to add enough layers of redirection to hopefully keep this data free\/available). <\/p>\n
It’s really well-formatted JSON. As of this post, not all those links completely work (the Maine & PR results weren’t certified yet). Please credit the hard-working folks at CNN whenever\/wherever you use this data (if you use it at all). Making a resource like this available is a great service (even if it wasn’t 100% intentional).<\/p>\n
The rest of the post shows how to display the voting % per top-candidate in each Texas county. Because Texas uses counties for roll-up aggregation, we can also use `tigris` to get great maps.<\/p>\n