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Akashic AtlasUnited States · the national plate
how the nation voted · 2024
- Donald J. Trump✓Republican49.8%77,303,540
- Kamala D. HarrisDemocratic48.3%75,019,232
- Jill SteinGreen0.4%571,364
- All other candidates1.5%2,346,706
the presidential record
R+1.5
2024 · national popular vote
2008D+7.32012D+3.92016D+2.12020D+4.52024R+1.5
MIT Election Data + Science Lab · certified national returns · county record to 1892
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1892Cook County, Illinois2024
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Each plate is the county’s own place-page map — its precinct-level presidential result, seated within its neighboring states — beside its real election record.
2024R+60.4
The realigner
McDowell County
West Virginia
A Democratic coal stronghold for generations; R+60.4 in 2024.
- Population
- 18K
- Median income
- $31,559
1892presidential margin by election2024
2024D+14.9
The counter-realigner
Cobb County
Georgia
Republican from 1980 through 2012; Democratic ever since 2016.
- Population
- 775K
- Median income
- $102,738
1892presidential margin by election2024
2024R+18.1
The bellwether
Vigo County
Indiana
America’s most famous presidential bellwether.
- Population
- 106K
- Median income
- $52,976
1892presidential margin by election2024
2024D+32.9
The giant
Los Angeles County
California
One in four Californians lives here.
- Population
- 9.8M
- Median income
- $90,112
1892presidential margin by election2024
2024D+5.5
The battleground metro
Harris County
Texas
A populist-era Republican county that turned blue.
- Population
- 4.8M
- Median income
- $74,983
1892presidential margin by election2024
2024R+11.4
The fast mover
Miami-Dade County
Florida
The South Florida realignment in miniature.
- Population
- 2.7M
- Median income
- $71,753
1892presidential margin by election2024
County record: MIT Election Data + Science Lab · precinct geometry: VEST / MEDSL · demographics: ACS. Every plate opens the county’s full page.
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State · Illinois · June 2026
Illinois: The Bellwether That Became the Wall
For most of American history, Illinois picked presidents — no Republican won the White House without it until 2000. The profile traces how the former bellwether became the Midwest’s Democratic wall, and reads the 2024 result — the narrowest Democratic margin since 2004 — county by county.
County · Sangamon County, IL
Sangamon County: The Company Town Where the Company Is the State
The seat of a Democratic state’s government and one of the last Republican-run urban counties in Illinois. The profile reads a county that holds near R+5.0 (2024) while its downstate neighbors move away from it — and why a government payroll makes politics run cool.
June 2026 · 2,777 wordsRead →
City · Paterson, NJPaterson: The City Hamilton Built, Governed From Outside and Voting Like the Country Only More So
America’s first planned industrial city, built around a waterfall and still partly governed from outside. The profile reads how the largest Democratic stronghold in Passaic County fell to 62% for Harris in 2024 — and became the engine that flipped its county to a Republican president for the first time in three decades.
June 2026 · 2,650 wordsRead →
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