New York City, as you may know, is broken into five boroughs. Manhattan is the one you think of, with Times Square and Central Park and so on. To the north is The Bronx, named after the Dutch family that once farmed it (the Broncks). To the east, at the western end of Long Island, are Queens and Brooklyn. If Brooklyn were its own city, which it was until the late 19th century, it would be the fourth-largest city in the country. The fifth borough is Staten Island, geographically and culturally closer to New Jersey than the rest of the boroughs, and the only one that's consistently Republican.

Between the five, more than 8 million people live in the city.

Which is why, despite the fact that the city is unabashedly left-leaning, you might be surprised to learn how many votes were cast in that 2012 Republican primary. Go ahead. Think of a number.

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Ready?

No, that's not missing any digits.

Zero-point-three percent of the city of New York -- 3 out of every 1,000 people -- weighed in on the Republican primary in 2012, and 0.2 percent voted for Mitt Romney.

The borough that had the most Republican voting was Queens. There, 7,217 people cast a ballot. That was the most.

That's so few people that there are a number of Census blocks -- the smallest unit of measurement the Census Bureau identifies -- that by themselves have more people.

Wall Street. Roosevelt Island (where Hillary Clinton's formal campaign launch was held). Rikers Island, home to the main city jail. A housing complex in The Bronx. All of those small areas are home (willingly or not) to more people than voted in Queens.

And that was the most people. In Manhattan, about 6,500 people voted. All the places above and a housing complex in Jamaica, Queens, have more people than that.

All the Census blocks that had more people than Queens voters have more than Manhattan's, too (obviously). Meaning that the number of people living in the small area around Wall Street is greater than the number of people in the borough from Battery Park (at the bottom of Manhattan) to Inwood (at the top) who voted in the Republican primary.

We can go on down the line. Fewer people voted in Brooklyn...

...and fewer still in very-Republican but not-densely populated Staten Island.

The fewest number of Republicans turned out to vote in The Bronx, the fourth-biggest borough. How few people voted in the Republican primary in the Bronx in 2012?

So few that each of the Census blocks on the map below by itself is home to more people than cast such a ballot.