Political Party Contributions Ratio

Total Political Contributions to Republicans divided by Total Political Contributions to Democrats

Created by: scotland777

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Politics

More white means weighted in favor of Democrat contributions.
More orange means weighted in favor of Republican contributions.

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Rank	Region	Total Political Contributions to Republicans	÷	Total Political Contributions to Democrats	Result
1	Mississippi	12,762,163.44	÷	3,599,584.56	3.55
2	Utah	10,755,384.75	÷	3,585,128.25	3.00
3	South Dakota	4,206,419.40	÷	1,828,878.00	2.30
4	Alabama	17,198,799.24	÷	7,726,996.76	2.23
5	Tennessee	23,451,442.20	÷	10,691,098.65	2.19
6	South Carolina	11,962,234.27	÷	5,713,305.92	2.09
7	Nebraska	6,414,061.42	÷	3,159,164.58	2.03
8	Idaho	3,587,530.32	÷	1,793,765.16	2.00
9	Kansas	10,701,558.78	÷	5,512,924.22	1.94
10	Oklahoma	12,209,383.56	÷	6,289,682.44	1.94
11	Wyoming	4,509,970.08	÷	2,323,317.92	1.94
12	Arizona	26,539,334.64	÷	15,586,593.36	1.70
13	Louisiana	19,678,599.12	÷	11,743,680.12	1.68
14	Texas	113,840,780.40	÷	69,773,381.56	1.63
15	Ohio	35,473,813.13	÷	24,651,293.87	1.44
16	Indiana	12,933,039.52	÷	9,142,321.04	1.41
17	Nevada	15,042,244.32	÷	10,892,659.68	1.38
18	Georgia	33,365,839.80	÷	24,161,470.20	1.38
19	North Dakota	998,370.96	÷	753,157.04	1.33
20	Florida	88,249,784.88	÷	66,574,399.12	1.33
21	Missouri	19,799,451.84	÷	15,556,712.16	1.27
22	Kentucky	14,598,404.15	÷	11,944,148.85	1.22
23	Wisconsin	10,584,686.71	÷	9,386,420.29	1.13
24	Alaska	3,094,857.48	÷	2,912,807.04	1.06
25	Michigan	23,869,579.00	÷	23,392,187.42	1.02
26	Virginia	72,923,657.00	÷	72,923,657.00	1.00
27	Minnesota	19,353,582.43	÷	20,143,524.57	0.96
28	New Hampshire	5,425,178.88	÷	5,877,277.12	0.92
29	North Carolina	20,768,118.72	÷	22,498,795.28	0.92
30	Iowa	5,290,678.50	÷	6,210,796.50	0.85
31	Pennsylvania	36,817,132.95	÷	44,998,718.05	0.82
32	Colorado	23,119,607.70	÷	28,257,298.30	0.82
33	Arkansas	6,087,115.80	÷	7,439,808.20	0.82
34	West Virginia	2,784,324.40	÷	3,543,685.60	0.79
35	Delaware	2,995,198.36	÷	3,812,070.64	0.79
36	Oregon	9,565,050.18	÷	13,208,878.82	0.72
37	Connecticut	21,971,786.02	÷	31,617,935.98	0.69
38	New Jersey	29,188,440.06	÷	45,653,713.94	0.64
39	Montana	1,712,042.67	÷	2,677,810.33	0.64
40	Illinois	48,172,687.98	÷	82,023,766.02	0.59
41	California	125,123,432.40	÷	232,372,088.70	0.54
42	Maine	3,345,855.68	÷	6,396,488.80	0.52
43	Washington	15,638,118.78	÷	30,356,348.22	0.52
44	District of Columbia	72,019,929.60	÷	153,042,350.40	0.47
45	New Mexico	8,922,778.88	÷	18,960,905.12	0.47
46	Hawaii	2,441,177.40	÷	5,614,708.02	0.43
47	Maryland	20,601,914.76	÷	52,976,352.24	0.39
48	New York	71,880,036.02	÷	204,581,641.00	0.35
49	Massachusetts	20,417,182.75	÷	61,251,548.25	0.33
50	Rhode Island	1,420,100.43	÷	5,274,658.74	0.27
51	Vermont	927,968.63	÷	4,530,670.37	0.20

Comments

triplepoint (5 months ago)

What's going on in virginia that it's an exact 1.0 ratio?

Anonymous (5 months ago)

Northern Virginia looks a lot like the urban Northeast. South and west Virginia looks a lot like rural Georgia. They balance out.

Anonymous (5 months ago)

I think what the GOOD reason for the question is that it appears both the Democratic and Republican parties received the EXACT same amount of contributions at 72,923,657.00.

I would agree that statistically, I would be shocked if that really occured. I suspect the dataset is NOT correct and that it is a cut-and-paste error of the data or some other factor from data provided by OpenSecrets.org

nbucknor (5 months ago)

It turns out the culprit is the precision of the dataset. If you look at: http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/statetotals.php?cycle=2008
To get the Total Contributions to Republicans and Democrats for VA, you'll need to take the total contributions for VA and multiply it by the percent that went to each party ( In Virginia's case 50% to 50%). The Mashups are only as good as the data :(

Jason Sperske (5 months ago)

I'd like to see a slightly more complex chart where states are ranked as a function of their distance from 1(balanced). I guess you would have to express that as

min/max

and not

Dem/Rep

That way the map would represent states where party affiliation is evenly funded (hotly contested?) while Orange would represent where party affiliation is funded in one direction. Is there a plan to express a more complex calculation? Possibly in JavaScript or Ruby? Even without that, this site is amazing.