Map of the Jungle

This interactive election map presents the districts, candidates, and ballot questions for the October 12, 2019 jungle primaries in Louisiana with spatial context. Instead of the typical presentation of information where you fill out a form and get a filled out form in response, an interactive map shows the location and shape of each of your districts, and unlike a static map, you can zoom in to examine district borders as closely as you like.

Early Voting

Early voting sites (generally offices of the parish Registrar of Voters, but sometimes other locations) are marked with paddle icons colored by parish. Same parish, same color. The address of each site in its popup balloon links to Google Maps driving directions.

Election-Day Polling Places

Election-day polling places are not included in this map. There are too many and too little time to do them justice vis-a-vis proper geolocation. Correspondingly, voting tabulation districts are not included, as their sole use would be to visually determine your election-day polling place.

To determine or confirm your election-day polling place if you are registered to vote, log in by name or address to the LA Secretary of State voter portal.

Office and Candidate Sequence

Candidates for an office are listed in a small table, and the rows of that table are sorted alphabetically. This generally differs from the order on the ballot. The candidate's party is listed before their name so that alphabetization will cluster candidates by party. Incumbency is not indicated.

Offices on the Parishes layer (some of which are actually town offices) are sorted alphabetically, but ballot questions are placed at the top of the popup balloon regardless of other items.

Unofficial district shapes

Official shapefiles are not available for state supreme court districts or BESE districts. The districts of those two layers of this map are a best-effort approximation constructed by combining voting tabulation district (voting precinct) shapes from 2017 after using the LA Secretary of State's sample ballot lookup to identify which precincts pertain to which districts. There were naming mismatches between the SOS precincts and the precincts from the 2017 shapefile whose geometries were used to build the districts seen in this map. As such, some judgement calls were needed to assign certain precincts to districts, even with a generally rich description of the canonical correspondence between official existing precincts and their BESE and Supreme Court districts.

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