↖︎ Vishal Singh
A Data Almanac of American Voting

Voting Against the Grain

About four in ten partisans live in a county that votes the other way. Pick one of the four kinds of partisan and watch how — and where — they break from their party at the ballot box · CES 2008–2024
Choose a kind of partisan · share of all party identifiers
Blue county
voted Democratic
Red county
voted Republican
Democrats
Republicans
Showing

I

Crossing over at the top of the ticket

Presidential crossover rises as the county turns hostile
Crossover across the five presidential elections

II

The geography of crossing over

Crossover by state
III

Who crosses over: the diploma divide

The partisans who break from their county are not random. They are the educationally exposed wings of each party — and the pattern is a mirror image.
College degree, by kind of partisan

bar = % with a 4-year degree or more · the two local-minority kinds are mirror images of their aligned twins
How they differ from their aligned counterpart