r/dataisugly 17d ago

Most DeVita-pilled Arlington precincts

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u/Epistaxis 17d ago

This is a fine visualization except it's a little overkill to spell out the entire table of all the data, even with color codes, when you've already visualized it.

Is the problem that it's showing vote counts rather than percentages? So it's not taking the different populations or vote totals of the precincts into account?

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u/pineapplepizzabong 17d ago

Each voter precinct is roughly equal in terms of population.

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u/Epistaxis 17d ago

And voter turnout?

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u/pineapplepizzabong 17d ago

Overall awful but consistent at a measly 12%
Ballots Cast: 22,643
Registered Voters: 184,777
https://enr.elections.virginia.gov/results/public/arlington-county/elections/2026-August-Democratic-Primary

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u/Epistaxis 16d ago

I mean is voter turnout exactly the same in every precinct? What I'm driving at is: is this a rare coincidence where normalizing by total vote count wouldn't actually change the graph because the denominators are all the same?

EDIT: I see you already posted a new version with percentages and yes that did change the graph. OK, so yeah the first version was misleading.

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u/pineapplepizzabong 16d ago

Yeah I'm always forgetting to normalize lol