*A commenter on my voting abstention map for Texas requested one for Oklahoma, so I guess it’s a series!*
Methodology: Counties won by “Nobody” do not necessarily represent counties in which a majority of eligible voters abstained, but rather those counties in which no single candidate earned more votes than total abstentions. In total, out of 2.9-million eligible voters in Oklahoma in 2024, 36% voted for Donald Trump, 17% voted for Kamala Harris, and 46% abstained from voting (edit: there is a minor typo in the graphic which states that 47% abstained).
Sources: Total number of eligible voters derived from [US Census Bureau Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) data](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/voting-rights/cvap.html) (2018-2022 5-Year American Community Survey). Election results data from Oklahoma State Election Board (November 7, 100% of polling locations reporting).
So you are counting people who, for whatever reason, chose not to vote as if they cast an ‘abstain’ vote?
This is the dictionary definition of junk science and misinformation. It means nothing at all.
Doesn’t census count everyone not only citizens?
Good map graph.
Pie charts have their place, but are horrible for comparisons.
It would be interesting if you cold compare vote abstention in past elections
Good work overall!
This has been a long-running conversation and it’s good to see it finally visually represented.
There aren’t ultra-red states, they are “dead” states. Apathy wins and allows the “next bigger” to win, which *may* be a plurality, but it certainly isn’t a majority.
“Politics” is “that thing” over in DC, and it feels hard to get in to for many people. The great effort is making politics “easy” and “accessible”. Easy words for me to type today, I know.
But I hope the one piece of consolation is that there isn’t a huge majority and a tiny minority, people should not feel isolated as things seem, when the “greys” show up, we know how they vote… they’re with us.
Going as planned. Make politics such a shit show and governments pure inertia the public feels hopeless and does not engage.
I will keep popping into every one of your threads u/delugetheory & say this rocks. I don’t know what you do full time but I really hope this becomes part of it!
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Funny how so many Democrats use this as an excuse as to why they lost. Who’s to say these people would have voted Democrat in the first place? If they truly preferred the Democrats, they would have shown up and voted for them!
Was there a bit of gerrymandering? It’s crazy that every county was red, but a sizable portion of people voted blue.
I’d be interested to see Pennsylvania, considering they probably got the most political ads
These are so good. Are you making these? Will you do every state please?
All I can think when I see this graph is I understand why nobody cares if democracy dies under Trump. They weren’t participating in it anyways…
i hope its obvious why most people didnt vote. or i hope people arent idiots. anyone who understands a bipartial system is pointless, understands you should let whoever win. ultimately it doesnt matter. its not like whoever is in charge cares about whether dem/rep are in charge. everything occurs the same way its intended to occur. you literally have a defect if you think the party in charge impacts the direction.
Do you have all the states? Id be curious to see the national view
The worst part is that the demographic most affected by politics is in the non-voter bloc while those that will have the needle on their lives move the least are extremely avid voters, and they tend to vote red.
Honestly, looking at this, it seems like a good policy idea is to accept “nobody” via voter abstention, and that none of the current candidates should be allowed to enter office. If people don’t vote because they don’t care about the current candidates, then the candidates are not good and no one should win. Then the seat sits empty until someone gets a better turnout. But yeah yeah yeah “we can’t have an empty presidential seat ever!” That’s an incentive in itself for candidates to actually try to appeal to everyone, not the 2% they need to win by narrow margin.
If you only have two choices, is there really a choice?
Why is the assumption if the people who didn’t vote voted, it would benefit Democrats?
Looking forward to seeing the Michigan version of this map.
Boy you people are really gasping for air. You should do NY next
You really need a monetary incentive to convince the non voters to vote. Whether that is a tax deduction or national paid holiday… but the right loses is more people vote just by math so they will never sign on to providing more access, more incentive to vote.
These are fascinating. Would love to see the whole country! Thanks for sharing OP
![United States of Apathy 2024: Oklahoma [OC]](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/z1q8eifzpizd1-1920x1024.png)
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*A commenter on my voting abstention map for Texas requested one for Oklahoma, so I guess it’s a series!*
Methodology: Counties won by “Nobody” do not necessarily represent counties in which a majority of eligible voters abstained, but rather those counties in which no single candidate earned more votes than total abstentions. In total, out of 2.9-million eligible voters in Oklahoma in 2024, 36% voted for Donald Trump, 17% voted for Kamala Harris, and 46% abstained from voting (edit: there is a minor typo in the graphic which states that 47% abstained).
Sources: Total number of eligible voters derived from [US Census Bureau Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) data](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/voting-rights/cvap.html) (2018-2022 5-Year American Community Survey). Election results data from Oklahoma State Election Board (November 7, 100% of polling locations reporting).
Tools: [QGIS](https://www.qgis.org/), [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/), [LibreOffice](https://www.qgis.org/).
So you are counting people who, for whatever reason, chose not to vote as if they cast an ‘abstain’ vote?
This is the dictionary definition of junk science and misinformation. It means nothing at all.
Doesn’t census count everyone not only citizens?
Good map graph.
Pie charts have their place, but are horrible for comparisons.
It would be interesting if you cold compare vote abstention in past elections
Good work overall!
This has been a long-running conversation and it’s good to see it finally visually represented.
There aren’t ultra-red states, they are “dead” states. Apathy wins and allows the “next bigger” to win, which *may* be a plurality, but it certainly isn’t a majority.
“Politics” is “that thing” over in DC, and it feels hard to get in to for many people. The great effort is making politics “easy” and “accessible”. Easy words for me to type today, I know.
But I hope the one piece of consolation is that there isn’t a huge majority and a tiny minority, people should not feel isolated as things seem, when the “greys” show up, we know how they vote… they’re with us.
Going as planned. Make politics such a shit show and governments pure inertia the public feels hopeless and does not engage.
I will keep popping into every one of your threads u/delugetheory & say this rocks. I don’t know what you do full time but I really hope this becomes part of it!
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Funny how so many Democrats use this as an excuse as to why they lost. Who’s to say these people would have voted Democrat in the first place? If they truly preferred the Democrats, they would have shown up and voted for them!
Was there a bit of gerrymandering? It’s crazy that every county was red, but a sizable portion of people voted blue.
I’d be interested to see Pennsylvania, considering they probably got the most political ads
These are so good. Are you making these? Will you do every state please?
All I can think when I see this graph is I understand why nobody cares if democracy dies under Trump. They weren’t participating in it anyways…
i hope its obvious why most people didnt vote. or i hope people arent idiots. anyone who understands a bipartial system is pointless, understands you should let whoever win. ultimately it doesnt matter. its not like whoever is in charge cares about whether dem/rep are in charge. everything occurs the same way its intended to occur. you literally have a defect if you think the party in charge impacts the direction.
Do you have all the states? Id be curious to see the national view
The worst part is that the demographic most affected by politics is in the non-voter bloc while those that will have the needle on their lives move the least are extremely avid voters, and they tend to vote red.
Honestly, looking at this, it seems like a good policy idea is to accept “nobody” via voter abstention, and that none of the current candidates should be allowed to enter office. If people don’t vote because they don’t care about the current candidates, then the candidates are not good and no one should win. Then the seat sits empty until someone gets a better turnout. But yeah yeah yeah “we can’t have an empty presidential seat ever!” That’s an incentive in itself for candidates to actually try to appeal to everyone, not the 2% they need to win by narrow margin.
If you only have two choices, is there really a choice?
Why is the assumption if the people who didn’t vote voted, it would benefit Democrats?
Looking forward to seeing the Michigan version of this map.
Boy you people are really gasping for air. You should do NY next
You really need a monetary incentive to convince the non voters to vote. Whether that is a tax deduction or national paid holiday… but the right loses is more people vote just by math so they will never sign on to providing more access, more incentive to vote.
These are fascinating. Would love to see the whole country! Thanks for sharing OP
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