Partisan Voting Index Calculator

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Tuesday December 10, 2013 · 8:10 AM PST

2013/12/10 · 08:10

The Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI, usually just PVI) has become one of the standard measures of assessing a political unit's partisan lean, one often seen in diaries on this website. Though it is not too difficult to figure out/understand (indeed, it's to the Cook Political Report's credit that they are as transparent/open to outside input about it as they are), to make the process of calculating it easier I put together an easy and intuitive PVI calculator using Microsoft Excel. More info after the jump.

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Wednesday August 08, 2012 · 6:15 PM PDT

2012/08/08 · 18:15

Note – The numbers for 2012 from the Michigan Secretary of State’s website are unofficial, though they are more complete than the AP’s results and will likely see few changes in the near future.

In 2010, there was no better indicator that the national red tide was going to hit Michigan hard than the monster Republican turnout in their party's gubernatorial primary. Nearly 519,562 more people voted in the Republican primary that year, and the total vote cast was nearly twice that on the Democratic side. Though some of this could be attributed to the fact that the Democratic nomination was seen by many as a suicide mission, nonetheless it was a harbinger of how lopsided turnout would be in November that year.

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2012 Michigan Senatorial Primary - Democratic Turnout Up, Republican Down