{"id":6723,"date":"2016-05-24T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2016-05-24T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:45:32","slug":"cd8-primary-election-results-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6723","title":{"rendered":"CD8 Primary Election Results, Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A guest blog by Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The data below combines precinct information with census tract data on Hispanic origin and race from the 2010 Decennial Census.\u00a0 The demographics of the three counties are very different.\u00a0 Of the 67 precincts in Carroll and Frederick Counties, 63 had populations that were at least 90% white.\u00a0 Of the 139 precincts in Montgomery County, 57 were majority-minority.\u00a0 These differences influence the presentation below.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the results for precincts by their population percentages in different demographic categories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CD8-Votes-by-Demographics-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CD8-Votes-by-Demographics-2.png\" alt=\"CD8 Votes by Demographics 2\" width=\"1647\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CD8-Votes-by-Demographics-2.png 1647w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CD8-Votes-by-Demographics-2-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CD8-Votes-by-Demographics-2-768x280.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CD8-Votes-by-Demographics-2-1024x374.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1647px) 100vw, 1647px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At first glance, the data shows a seeming contradiction.\u00a0 Trone led in precincts with populations over 75% white.\u00a0 But Trone also led in precincts with less than 40% white populations.\u00a0 How can this be?\u00a0 The former fact is explained by Trone\u2019s victory in the overwhelmingly white precincts of Carroll and Frederick.\u00a0 The latter fact is explained by Trone\u2019s wins in Gaithersburg, Glenmont\/Norbeck and parts of Rockville, which are racially diverse.\u00a0 Trone also finished a close second in Wheaton and Silver Spring East County.\u00a0 While Senator Jamie Raskin won big in diverse precincts in Takoma Park and Silver Spring Inside the Beltway, he also won in predominantly white Bethesda, Cabin John, Chevy Chase and Kensington.\u00a0 Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez was a factor in Glenmont\/Norbeck (Zip Code 20906 excluding Leisure World), finishing second in the nine precincts there.\u00a0 She finished third in the 19 precincts with at least 33% Hispanic populations.<\/p>\n<p>We will have a summary of the candidates\u2019 performance in Part Four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guest blog by Adam Pagnucco. The data below combines precinct information with census tract data on Hispanic origin and race from the 2010 Decennial Census.\u00a0 The demographics of the three counties are very different.\u00a0 Of the 67 precincts in Carroll and Frederick Counties, 63 had populations that were at least 90% white.\u00a0 Of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6723\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CD8 Primary Election Results, Part Three<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,279],"tags":[1301,1545,1490,1778,1502,1308],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-demographics","tag-mdcd8","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-ana-sol-gutierrez","tag-david-trone","tag-jamie-raskin","tag-kathleen-matthews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1Kr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6797,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}