We’ve published a new interactive map of the 2024 election showing results by precinct, the most detailed voting data we’ve ever seen. The New York Times is also making this dataset publicly available for others to use.
This map lets you see how most Americans voted in their city, neighborhood, and even their own block in the primary between Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris, 2020 You can see how the voting margin has changed since then. It currently contains results for over 110,000 precincts. Or 73% of all votes, which will be updated as more data is collected.
We encourage readers to explore their hometowns and other places they’ve lived, explore the changes of 2020, and learn more about the 2024 election. While President Trump made gains on a number of fronts to reclaim the White House, detailed data shows different geographic patterns and changes for each candidate in different parts of the country.
Why we share this data
To create the map, The Times spent months collecting results data and district boundary files from state and county sources. Each of these agencies has their own way of making their data public, and there is no national source of this information. Since this is a time-consuming research task, we decided to publish the data behind the map so that others can use it for tasks such as demographic analysis.
You will notice that some parts of the map are blank. We plan to post updates to that information and data sets as we continue to collect and confirm results, and several states are already on the list. The initial map prioritized gathering counties with the most votes to include as much of the turnout as possible.
However, some states and counties have said they will not provide precinct-level results for every vote cast in the election. Many places do not include early or mail-in absentee ballots in their publicly available precinct data, and because the majority of Americans currently vote early or by mail, we consider data for those places to be incomplete and do not include them in our maps. .
how we did it
Collecting district data presents a unique challenge. In some cases, the results were easy to download as well-formatted data tables. In other cases, the data was trapped in a PDF file and had to be parsed. In some places, data-interested individuals have already collected district data and we have received permission to incorporate their efforts into our maps.
When creating a map, getting the results into a data table was only half the job. The other half was putting the data into district boundaries. These boundaries change with each new election and must be collected manually.
Wherever possible, official district boundaries provided by state or local officials were used. However, because the zone names in the results and boundary files were labeled or coded in an unaligned manner, the process of matching the results to these zone boundaries ranged from very simple to virtually impossible.
Finally, we verified the information on the map by comparing each county’s voting results to the official results. In most cases, the numbers matched perfectly. In a very small number of places, some data did not match the district and were not included on the map.
The map was created by Saurabh Datar, Alex Lemonides, Ilana Marcus, Eli Murray, Ethan Singer, and Christine Zhang, with additional contributions from the larger team. Learn more about our methodology and the full list of contributors here.
