Kanye West Vote Analysis

Kanye West was on the ballot in twelve states last month, but none of them were populous, so only 14.15% of the voters saw his name on their ballot.  In the states in which he was on the ballot, he polled .30% of the vote.

In the east, he was only on in Vermont, where he got .35%.

In the midwest, he was on in Iowa, Minnesota, and Oklahoma.  His vote in those three states was .26%.

In the south, he was on in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.  In those five states he got .30%.

In the west, he was on in Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.  In those three states he got .34%.  His best state in the nation was Utah, where he got .48%.  His best county in Utah was San Juan, with .65%.

He only got as much as 1% in one county in the U.S., Houston County in Tennessee, where he got 1.03%.  Houston County is in northwest Tennessee, is predominantly white, and was quite loyal to the Democratic Party until the last decade, but now it is strongly Republican.

Other counties in which he got at least .70% of the vote are, in order:

Chester County, Tennessee, .94%; Lincoln Co., Tn., .94%; Coffee County, Tn., .90%; Davidson Co., Tn., .84%; Hempstead Co., Ark., .84%; Lafayette Co., Ark., .82%; McNairy Co., Tn., .82%; Lafayette Co., Ark., .82%; Weakley Co., Tn., .81%; Decatur Co., Tn., .80%; Crittenden Co., Ark., .78%; Tunica Co., Miss., .76%; Lincoln Co., Ida., .72%; Dallas Co., Ark., .72%; Moore Co., Tn., .71%; Sevier Co., Tn., .71%; and Phillips Co., Ark., .70%.


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Kanye West Vote Analysis — 10 Comments

  1. Skylar, Brian Carroll and the American Solidarity Party did a great job of getting write-ins in states where he wasn’t on the ballot. For example, in Minnesota, Carroll got more write-ins than Alyson Kennedy received, even though she was on the ballot in Minnesota. As to ballot status, Carroll was on the ballot in 8 states, which contained only 11.5% of the voters. In those 8 states he received .13% of the vote.

  2. Richard isn’t exactly a source for accuracy. Everybody knows Oklahoma is a southern state. He probably considers Texas the midwest too.

  3. Actually, Oklahoma was Indian Territory in 1860, and some of the tribes negotiated treaties with the Confederacy.

    The Union punished the tribes for negotiating with the South, and effectively terminated their autonomy when they made Oklahoma a state.

    There have actually been recent Supreme Court cases arguing about the current status of the semi-autonomous “Civilized Nations” and their relationship with the current State of Oklahoma.

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