Last month, 78 U.S. House contests pitted a white candidate against a person of color; 47 white lawmakers won, or 60 percent. (In 10 additional races, both candidates were minorities.)
People tend to look at partisanship first, explained Matt Baretto, a University of Washington political-science professor, but there is additional evidence that people do bring their racial bias to the voting process.
Baretto researchedvoting bias in Washington state, where an appointed Latino judge ran to retain his Supreme Court seat. His opponent campaigned lightly, yet won in 30 of the 38 counties where racial tensions were high. (The Seattle Times covered the , andBaretto found evidence of racially polarized voting in more than 40 Los Angeles County elections since the mid-1990s; similarly, 2010conducted in Texas showed a propensity for Hispanic voters to back Juan Martinez over John Morgan.)
In the coming year, more and more ethnic-sounding surnames will appear on ballots, which is only one factor that partly defines candidates beyond party and gender. Below are visual representations of winners and losers in November races involving minority candidates, with red signifying Republicans, blue Democrats, and green independents.
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This first visual representation is of the 10 minority winners of open seats, further evidence that the GOP fielded few successful minority candidates.
Here is a mashup of the names of minority winners.
A collection of surnames of the losers in contests when one candidate was white and his or her opponent was a person of color.
Districts and gerrymandering have much to do with the success of a candidate, but some districts had hotly contested races of minority candidates;
Puerto Rican immigrant Jose Serrano easily retained his District 15 seat, representing New Yorkers in upper Manhattan and parts of Queens. He beat Frank Della Valle, 97 percent to 3 percent, in the widest margin among minority candidates.
Conversely, in another race where one candidate was a minority, Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy defeated incumbent Allen West, R-Fla., by the narrowest margin--a mere 1,907 votes--in ousting the black House member in District 18, which encompasses parts of Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.
Here you can see the surnames of the winners and their parties.
And finally, take a look at an alphabetized list of winners by party; the names in italics are the minority candidates.
Barton beat Sanders58-39Osborne beat Bass86-14Beatty beat Long68-27Becerra beat Smith85-15Bentivollo beat Taj57-44Beutler beat Haugen60-40Blackburn beat Amouzouvik 71-24Brooks beat Holley 65-35Burgess beat Sanchez 68-29Campbell beat Kang 59-41Capps beatMaldonado55-45Capuano beat Romano 84-16Castor beatOtero 70-30Chu beat Orswell 63-37Clarke beat Cavanagh 87-12Coble beat Foriest 61-39Cole beat Bebo 61-39Cuellar beat Hayward 68-30DeLauro beatWinsley 75-25Coble beat Foriest 61-39Denham beat Hernandez 54-46Duncan beat Doyle 67-33Eshoo beat Chapman 70-30Farenthold beat Harrison 57-39Flores beat Easton 80-20Forbes beatWard 57-43Gerlach beat Trivedi 57-43Gohmert beat McKellar 72-27Gosar beat Robinson 67-28Green beat Mueller 78-20Grisham beat Arnold-Jones 59-41Heck beat Oceguera 50-43Hinojosa beat Brueggemann 61-37Horsford beat Tarkanian 50-42Huizenga beat German 61-34Jeffries beat Bellone 90-9Joyce beat Blanchard 54-39Jackson Lee beat Seibert 75-23Lujan beat Bryd 63-37Lungren beat Bera 51-49Matheson beatLove 49-48McCaul beat Cadien 61-36McClintock beat Uppal 61-39McCollum beatHernandez 62-32McNerney beat Gil 55-45Meng beat Halloran 68-31Miller beat Fuller 69-31Moore beat Sebring 72-25Mullin beat Wallace 57-38Murphy beat West 50-50 Nadler beat Chan 81-19Napolitano beat Miller 65-35O'Rourke beat Carrasco 66-33Olson beat Rogers 64-32 Payne beat Kelemen 87-11Pearce beat Ernard 59-41 Pompeo beat Tillman 62-31 Reed beat Shinagawa 52-48 Rice beat Tinubu 55-45Rogers beat Harris 64-36 Royce beat Chen 59-41Ruiz beat Bono Mack 52-48Ryan beat Agana 72-28Sanchez beat Hayden 62-38Scalise beat Mendoza 67-21Scott beat Rose 62-35Serrano beat Della Valle 97-3Sewell beat Chamberlain 76-24Southerland beat Lawson 53-47Takano beat Tavaglione 58-42Terry beat Ewing 51-49Thompson beat Dumas 63-37Tiberi beat Reese 64-36Vargas beat Crimmins 70-30Velazquez beat Murray 94-12Webster beat Demings 52-48Yoho beat Gillot 65-32
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