“North/South Divide” in Sarasota Continues in Election 2014
Sarasota County Precinct Results for 2014 Governor’s Race with Clark Road Division Marked
I’ve been doing some analyses of the Election 2014 results in Sarasota County. Back in August, Jeremy Wallace, of the Sarasota Herald Tribune, wrote about the “North/South Divide” between voters in Sarasota county.
This trend has continued in the November 2014 elections and is visible in the Governor’s race election. Continuing a trend in the Governor’s races, Sarasota results were slightly closer, with the margin for the Republican candidate (Rick Scott) only outpacing the Democratic candidate (Charlie Crist) by about 5,000 votes. Compared to the 2010 results, the Democratic candidate (Crist) improved his margin by about 1,500 votes.
Analyzing the North of Clark Road precincts, the results are:
Scott: 45.76%
Crist: 48.77%
South of Clark Road precincts:
Scott: 50.90%
Crist: 43.03%
Countywide
Scott: 48.63%
Crist: 45.56%
Scott performed 5.14% better South of Clark than North of Clark
Crist performed 5.75% better North of Clark than South of Clark
So the divide holds where North of Clark is the more Democrat friendly part of Sarasota County and South of Clark is more Republican friendly.
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