Arriving a bit late on 2021-Q1 campaign finance data, which was released at the end of last month totalling $1,507,741.19 dollars received by Rhode Island statewide politicians, down from the $2,777,997.78 received during 2020-Q4. The data includes individual donations, PAC's, interest from bank accounts and loans. This first table shows a breakdown of the top 20 campaign accounts that gained the most money and the source of the funds.

A breakdown of payroll changes in the 2 most recent quarters of the Governor's Office, during the transition from Gina Raimondo to Daniel McKee. The data is released quarterly, so this consists of data from January 2021, and April 2021. This takes a look at who left, who joined and who remained as well as pay changes between the 2 quarters.

Following my "interesting primary tables" post, this will take a look at many the same stats. The 2020 general election was quite an interesting night, As oppose to the primary which saw only 1 election turned by mail-in this election saw a drastic impact. Also the Rhode Island Board of Elections added a new stat "Blank Ballots" which is a tad odd... and stands out in a few communities.

Updates to my web app to show live election results for Rhode Island with data provided by RI Board of Elections. After feedback from the 2020 Primary, for the general I've added some improvements too the custom page allowing for a better user experience allowing preview of candidates and saving checked values.

A quick map showing early votes and mail-in ballots by voting precinct. Data from Rhode Island Secretary of State as of 10/31/2020 using registered voter data from 2018. 2 quick tables highlighting the top & bottom 10 precincts, as well as the ability to hover over the map for more detail.

A quick horizontal bar graph showing the method early voters choose to use between early voting at a local city/town hall, or voting by mail. The white line down the middle shows the 50% mark to easily identify which method a majority of early voters used.

A quick map showing early votes and mail-in ballots cast data from Rhode Island Secretary of State as of 10/25/2020 as a percent of turnout using registered voter data from the 2018 general election from the Board of Elections.

As a map won't work for this years primary, or rather, would look weird as some of the cities/towns didn't have an election this years primary. I chose to use a scatter plot to visualize the change in voter turnout between the 2016 primary election and this years 2020 primary. A teal dot, represents a precinct that has seen an increased turnout from 2016 and a purple dot a decrease in turnout.