Unlike the UK, aggregate vote share figures across the US are rarely reported. But there have now been some unofficial calculations, which put the vote share in House of Representative elections at:
Democrats 51%
Republicans 47%
(Figure from MyDD.com, which also has more details.)
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Overall figures tend to be misleading because in many strongly Democrat Congressional districts the Republicans did not put up a candidate. (For instance, in Richmond VA, there was no Republican candidate. The Republicans had no chance of winning and didn’t want to encourage Democrats to turn out and vote Democrat at Senate level.)
What is worrying for the Democrats is that the Democrat vote tends to be much more concentrated than the Republican vote. In many urban districts, the Democrats scored over 80% (eg, 96% in South Bronx, 94% in Harlem). The Republicans, by contrast, rarely managed more than 75%, even in solidly white rural areas in the South.
One very interesting and indeed astonishing statistic. In Kentucky’s 5th District (one of the poorest in the country), the Republicans got 72%. Yet in Maryland’s 8th District (one of the wealthiest), the Democrats scored 74%.
Full results may be found on the New York Times website.
Angus,
Thanks for this but I don’t think anyone should understate how remarkable the Democrat’s wins were. Greg Palast has been digging hard and explains just how much of a labour of sysiphus electoral politics has become for the Dems.
“For six years now, our investigations team, at first on assignment for BBC TV and the Guardian, has been digging into the nitty-gritty of the gaming of US elections.”
Palast’s estimate is that on November 7, 2006…[some]…Four and a half million votes [were] shoplifted [from the Democrats].”
If you want more of the details go to:
In essence the four and a half million is made up as follows:
1. Rejecting voters entitled to register.
2. Making it very difficult to vote for likely Democrat supporters…from ethnic minorities.
3. Ensuring that votes don’t get counted.
State administrations have considerable power to corrupt the electoral process – it takes a veritable tidal wave of opposition to the Republicans to overcome that. The extent of the electoral fraud is quite shocking…it is , as Palast puts it the case that:
“…the Republican Party [began] Election Day with a 4.5 million-vote thumb on the vote-tally scale.”
Ed Randall
Angus – if you follow the link on my posting there are calculations done to adjust the figures for the very effect you mention. They don’t make much of a difference to the overall totals.