Chris Kirkwood

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One of my favorite election results of 2018 was Democrats winning North Carolina's 119th House District. The seat contains some of my favorite places to travel in the state, including Pisgah National Forest and Shining Rock. Rep. Joe Sam Queen won by just over 4.5 points, sweeping Jackson County, winning the Haywood portion by a decent amount, and not getting blown out of the water in Swain

Ohio recently voted on Issue 1, which would have raised the threshold to pass constitutional amendments to 60% (in anticipation of a pro-choice referendum). In Hamilton County, home to Cincinnati, this failed by a 2/3 margin. The city proper and more educated suburbs came out hard against Issue 1, with only the west of the county and a few wealthy/conservative enclaves favoring it

Kentucky SD 28 saw a special election with a 3-way race on the 2023 primary election day. Elkins was ultimately elected by a plurality, losing votes to Henderson (a former conservative Democrat who had wanted the Republican nomination) in the east, and getting trounced by Sainte in Lexington

This map was one of the first that I created using QGIS (and has since been significantly refined). The referendum asked voters if they would like to approve restrictions on the use of traps, poison, and hunting dogs against bears. Voters in the more inland and rural parts of the state were more against these measures, while voters along the more urbanized coast were more in favor of them. The measure ended up failing by just under a 7-point margin. Notably, the interior of the state has a higher concentration of bears than the coast

Marion County OR is home to the state's capital of Salem, and went for Trump by 2 points in 2024, after Biden had won the county in 2020. Trump managed to make gains amongst the county's Hispanic population, and winning most of the areas outside of the Salem proper propelled him to victory