Gold goes to McCain: 2008 New Hampshire Republican Primary

Romney in his concession speech referred to his second place finish as winning a silver medal, that makes McCain the gold medalist and Huckabee a bronze winner. Here are the results for the top three candidates, McCain (37% ~88,400) Romney (32% ~75,200) and Huckabee (11% ~26,600). We at FortiusOne further analyzed the voting patterns to find the spatial distribution of relative advantages for McCain and Romney. Below are the snapshots of heatmaps based the city/town level voting data on GeoCommons.

The spatial distribution showing where McCain won more votes compared to Romney.

The flipside of the above map is the one below showing where Romney won more votes compared to McCain.

Explore the interactive heatmap using pan and zoom here.