AKASHIC EDGE · 165 YEARS, ONE MAP
Every county, every race, since 1868 — in one place. Ask a question. Drag across time. Export anything. Build on top of all of it.
SIX ERAS THAT REDREW THE MAP
Grant against Seymour — the first national map drawn with Black voters counted in the South. Military districts still in place. The coalitions that would define the next century were being forged in real time.
ASK ANYTHING · THE HISTORIAN
No schema browser, no export pipeline, no “it depends.” Every answer is a parameterized SQL query against the same data layer that ships every page on this site. Tap View SQL on any response.
| County | State | 2024 Margin | Swing (2012→2024) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trempealeau | WI | R +22.8 | −35.7 |
| Macomb | MI | R +12.4 | −16.9 |
| Ashtabula | OH | R +29.1 | −41.2 |
| Luzerne | PA | R +14.0 | −21.6 |
| Clinton | IA | R +17.5 | −30.8 |
ANALYZE · THE PLACE NETWORK
Every place in American politics gets its own page — state, county, district, state lege seat, metro, media market, city. Same data layer. Same sources. Same provenance. Built to be bookmarked, linked, and cited.
The decider. Two of the last three presidential elections have pivoted here — Phoenix suburbs now a tipping-point coalition of Latino, college-educated, and relocated voters.
Open dossier →Florida’s realignment engine. Cuban-American and Venezuelan coalitions powered a 32-point rightward shift since 2012.
Open dossier →Grand Rapids exurbs flipped blue in 2020. The mid-Michigan test kitchen for Democratic suburban strategy.
Open dossier →Pittsburgh and its ring. Still the Democratic anchor of western PA, but the margin is a third what it was in 1996.
Open dossier →Houston is the new Texas. Largest Democratic margin in the state’s largest urban county since 1964.
Open dossier →Rio Grande Valley, 97% Hispanic, backed every Democrat from 1892 to 2020. Flipped Republican in 2024 by a 16-point margin.
Open dossier →The Democratic cornerstone of the industrial Midwest. Chicago delivers every cycle — the question is always by how much.
Open dossier →One of the ten closest House races in the country, three cycles running. Allentown, Bethlehem, and the shifting ancestry of the Lehigh Valley.
Open dossier →BUILD · THE PUBLIC API
Every page on this site is rendered from the same 13 REST endpoints that the public API exposes. Versioned. Rate-limited. OpenAPI 3.1.
$ WHO THIS IS FOR
Campaign analysts, reporters, researchers, developers — all working the same 165 years of election history from a different angle. Same numbers. Same citations. Pick yours.
Every county, district, and precinct has its own page — margins, swings, turnout, demographics. Every number cites its source. Nothing to stitch together.
Open a place →Which counties flipped twice since 2008?
213 counties changed party twice between 2008 and 2024. The largest cluster is Upper Midwest industrial towns; the second is the Rio Grande Valley.
No code. No 'can you re-run the query.' The Historian writes the query for you, shows its work, and hands back an export you can drop straight into a story.
Ask a question →Every export is citation-ready: source IDs, vintage date, and a methodology page you can link to. Reproducible without the email threads.
Read the methodology →<iframe src="akashicedge.com/embed/margin-bar/04013" />
Live widgets for any place, any race, any year. Your site, our data, no build pipeline in between.
See the embeds →THE ELECTION ATLAS, REBUILT
Browse every page for free. Unlock the Historian, CSV exports, and the API when you’re ready.