The Working Families Party is up to 151,953 votes on our ballot line in this election with about a week and a half to go before the vote count is completed and certified.  That's up from 90,533 votes in the last gubernatorial election in 2002.

I want to share information on where in the state those votes are coming from (all based on unofficial returns).  These charts and maps are pretty detailed so they might be hard to read, but if you click on the chart or map you're reading you'll get a bigger version.

First overall turnout:

• 2002 : 5 million voters overall
• 2004 : 7.5 million voters overall
• 2006 : 4 million voters overall

Here is the broad breakdown of where the WFP's 2006 votes came from:

New York City (in red) 74,221 votes, 49%
Upstate (in yellow) 55,437 votes, 36%
Metro Suburbs (in blue) 22,295, 15%

For comparison here's that same breakdown of the WFP's 2002 votes:

New York City (in red) 53,557 votes, 59%
Upstate (in yellow) 24,901 votes, 28%
Metro Suburbs (in blue) 12,075, 13%

And the WFP's 2004 votes:

New York City (in red) 67,593 votes, 40%
Upstate (in yellow) 69,141 votes, 41%
Metro Suburbs (in blue) 31,985, 19%

Our gubernatorial vote in New York City continues to go up, while the proportion of our vote from Upstate and in the Metro Suburbs is growing (comparing 2006 to 2002).

Here's a county-by-county breakdown of where the WFP's 2006 vote came from.  You'll probably need to click on this chart to be able to read it.

This map shows a county-by-county breakdown of the WFP's percentage of the vote total (so if 100 people voted and 5 voted on the WFP line that's 5%).  The redder a county the higher the WFP percentage of the vote in that county.

This map goes county-by-county and shows the change of the WFP's percentage of the vote total from 2002 to 2006. The darker the county, the more the WFP percentage of the vote increased in that county.

Now it's your turn: what do you make of this data?