This post is mainly just for show. I will have more analysis later when I have the time. These are not exactly precinct maps, but use census tracts, and only in some areas do they line up exactly. In some areas they overlap, in some areas one precinct covers several tracts, and in others on tract has several precincts. They also cross over borders between congressional and legislative districts. I've done my best to represent the precinct results with the tracts. Where I do not have precinct results, the results by county or district will be shown.
Quick color guide, for the maps that are just the results:
Darkest Blue: 85% or more of the 2 party vote was Democratic
Next Darkest Blue: 75-85% of the 2 party vote was Democratic
Middle Blue: 65-75% was Democratic
Next Lightest Blue: 55-65% Democratic
Lightest Blue: 50-55% Democratic
Pink: 45-50% Democratic
Salmon: 35-45% Democratic
Dark Salmon: 25-35% Democratic
Brown: 15-25% Democratic
Dark Brown: under 15% Democratic
For context, here are blank maps so you can see where the areas in the colored maps are.
Statewide:
The Portland to Salem area:
For more context, here are President Obama's results in 2012:
Now to 2014 results. First, here is the gubernatorial race between John Kitzhaber and Dennis Richardson:
Now here is the US Senate race between Jeff Merkley and Monica Wehby:
Here are the US House results across the state:
And in the Mid to Lower Willamette Valley:
And finally, the State House election results. Note that where there were not candidates of both parties present, I used the results of the best performing third party candidate in the losing party's place, and where there was only one candidate, used the write-in votes against them as the opposing party. Unopposed candidates stick out, and so do races in the Portland area where only Libertarians opposed Democratic incumbents.
Now comparison maps. Each map will compare one of the other elections with the gubernatorial election. The color scale here is different. Each color represents a 5 point difference. So the lightest blue is where Jeff Merkley, the Democratic US House incumbent, or candidate/incumbent for state house did up to 5 points better than John Kitzhaber. The next darker blue is where they did 5-10 points better than Kitzhaber. Pink and red shades show where Kitzhaber did better than the other Democrats on the ballot in the same kind of increments.
First Jeff Merkley compared to John Kitzhaber. You can see that in nearly all of the state Merkley did significantly better than Kitzhaber, averaging about 5-10 points better.
Now the US House races compared to the gubernatorial election. As all were contested but none open, you can see that all of the incumbents outperformed their party's gubernatorial candidate.
Finally, the state house races compared to the gubernatorial race. Again the uncontested seats stand out (except where one party is so dominant anyway that it hardly shows at all), and incumbents tended to outperform their party's candidate for governor. It's notable, though, that in several of the rural Republican areas in the Willamette Valley the Democratic candidate for state house did better than Kitzhaber. In contrast, Kitzhaber tended to run well ahead of Dem house candidates in places like the southern Portland suburbs (West Linn, Tualatin, Wilsonville, Sherwood), Bend, and Hood River, while in open districts in Salem and the Portland suburbs, Democrats tended to outperform Kitzhaber in enarly every precinct.
I like how our candidate in HD-18, Scott Mills, did better than Kitzhaber in the city of Scotts Mills.