Mapping The Novel York Metropolis Mayoral Results

The New York Times has created a fascinating map of the election results for the New York City Mayor. With Bill de Blasio becoming the city's outset Democratic mayor inwards twenty years the New York Times map allows users to explore the votes cast for Bill de Blasio together with Joseph J. Lhota past times election district, past times race, average income together with past times abode ownership.

The map shows that de Blasio's landslide victory was partly the trial of his appeal across racial together with social economical groups. While de Blasio performed slightly improve on average inwards predominantly dark together with hispanic districts he every bit good proved far to a greater extent than pop than his Republican competitor inwards predominantly white areas.

Bill de Blasio repeatedly pledged to unite New York's 'two cities', those of the haves together with the have-nots, during his campaign. There was ever the danger that this pledge powerfulness convey backfired inwards wealthier areas of the city. However the New York Times map shows that fifty-fifty inwards the city's wealthiest areas de Blasio nevertheless performed surprisingly well. Only inwards the really few districts where average income is over $224,455 did Joseph J. Lhota outperform his rival.

In New Bailiwick of Jersey Gov. Chris Christie swept to a minute term defeating the Democratic contender, Barbara Buono. NJ.com created an interesting alive election results map that slow revealed the confront of Governor Christie every bit counties announced their results.