Arkansas Gubernatorial Election 2018

Since the Clinton administration, Arkansas has trended more and more Republican.  Twitter user @yeahitsJ0sh points out that Governor Asa Hutchinson increased his margin upon re-election.  Similarly, and despite a Biden gain on Clinton by 43,438 votes, President Donald Trump surpassed his 2016 margin in 2020 by nearly a percentage point in an already very red state.  Josh says:

1. I think at this point, we all expect Sarah Huckabee Sanders to (unfortunately) be the Republican nominee and the next Governor of Arkansas.
Current Governor Asa Hutchinson was reelected in 2018 by a margin of almost 35 points, considerably more than his first win in 2014. pic.twitter.com/Yv5nRoBMTO

— Josh (@yeahitsJ0sh) May 29, 2021

 This is a finely detailed precinct map, so definitely zoom in and check out the insets:

California Democratic Primary 2020: Top 4 Candidates

 @AveryTheComrade on Twitter brings us this gorgeous map with the following comment:

California was one of 3 states (California, Iowa, Nevada) that Bernie Sanders flipped from the 2016-2020 Democratic primaries, but unlike in 2016 it was much less of a 2-way race. Sanders won with 36% of the vote, 9% above Biden, mostly with support from the lost coast and valley pic.twitter.com/UI6JJFzXru

— Avery 🐸 (@AveryTheComrade) May 16, 2021

The Democratic primary is interesting because of its arcane semi-proportional delegate system.  You earn delegates per House district as well as statewide, but you only win delegates from a place if you get at least 15% of the vote within those geographical boundaries.  This makes a candidate's distribution of votes very important.

This one is worth zooming in on to see some of the nitty-gritty details and fine map-making.