The New York Times has an extremely detailed, interactive, heatmap showing the block by block election results of Tuesday’s Bloomberg re-election. The image above shows a detailed view of the Lower East Side voting results. The images below show the map at two different zoom levels.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg won re-eleection Tuesday, but voters were less enthusiastic about him than the last time he ran in 2005. The mayor did well in high-income white areas of Manhattan and Queens, and also in election districts dominated by immigrants, like Flushing and Brighton Beach. But his vote fell sharply in black neighborhoods, especially southeast Queens, where the black middle class has been hard-hit by foreclosure.

Hmmmm . . . so much for a post-racial society.

According to Mark Malseed of OhMyGov!:

The interactive graphic reveals the expression of a city’s politics at the most granular level I have seen (so far). The Google Maps mashup, quickly produced and elegantly rendered, does not adequately capture the three-dimensionality of New York – the high-rises blocks vs. the brownstones – but it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a Sketch-Up overlay for the graphic by the time Bloomberg runs again.

He also stated:

Demographers and campaign strategists may get the biggest benefit from drilling down into this data mashup. But the great thing about visualizations like this is they open up information to anyone, telling stories that would otherwise get lost in the numbers.

Well said!!

[via New York Times via OhMyGov!]

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