State Rep Elect McCready Tops Romney, President Obama, and Democratic Challenger Coston in 40th District.

They say the 40th district which consists of  Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills (both the City and the Township)n and the eastern half of West Bloomfield (everything west  of Inkster and all of precinct 15)  is  traditionally  Republican territory..On November 6th  Mitt Romney carried the district by about 4000 vote over  President Obama. Curiously both Presidential candidates were bested by Republican Michael McCready a candidate for state representative seeking state office for the first time.

Therefore we  thought it would be interesting to compare 40th district votes precinct by precinct,.It would give our readers a chance to see how their votes impacted locally.We know Ohio and Virginia were blue states but what about the precincts we live in like Bloomfield 13 or Birmingham 2. And what and where exactly is Bloomfield 13 or Birmingham 2  anyway ?

But first first the obligatory map.......

To get a bearing on the map, The City of Bloomfield Hills is the slightly left of center rectangle with what looks to be a mountain the middle. The diagonal line upon which the City is placed is Woodward Avenue. Going left by guess and by golly you can more or less make out Lahser, Telegraph, and Orchard Lake. Rd. From top to bottom the bottom border is for all intents and purposes is 14 mile. The bottom border of the City of Bloomfield Hills is Quarton and the line below the top most precincts is Square Lake.

Republican McCready carried all red precincts. Democrat  Dorian Coston  won the blue. 

 Democrat  Coston  captured all precincts in West Bloomfield except #10 (Beth Ahm) and #16 (West Hills Middle School) . 

McCready carried all others except for the Bloomfield Township Precincts of  #17(Township Fire # 4), #25 (Fox Hills Elementary 2) and  Bloomfield 27 (St, Paul Methodist Church).

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 On the National level President Obama carried Oakland County getting 53% of the vote. 

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  In the Presidential  election The Democrats won all  of West Bloomfield except precinct 16 which voted Republican. The Republicans captured all of Bloomfield Hills (City and Township) and Birmingham  except for the Bloomfield Township precincts #17, #25,  #27 ,#20 (Fox Hills 1)  #16 (West Maple 2) Bloomfield .#3 (Doyle Center), # 10 (Doyle Center 2), Bloomfield #7 ( Marian High School), Birmingham #8 (Adams Road Fire Station) and Birmingham #3 (Derby School).

We were curious about the Democratic gains in the Presidential election as compared to the local State Rep contest so we prepared the following chart based on data from Oakland County Elections. Because the graph looks at more than  one issue it is some what complex. The first two columns look at the Straight Party votes each party earned.This is a single vote for all candidates of the same party. Then we looked at the actual vote totals given to Romney and President Obama. These totals also include the straight ticket Vote and are the the actual final vote  for each candidate in that precinct. For reference next to each candidates vote we included what percent was from a straight  party vote.These percents are shade in grey. Then we looked Democrat Coston and Republican McCready's votes as though they were in a four way race with Mitt Romney and President Obama. We were trying to figure out who helped or hindered who. The help aspect is called "coat tails" meaning weaker candidates are carried along by holding on the leader's coat. In our imaginary "four" man race the winner's total is printed in white on either a red for Republican or Blue for Democrat background . The vote total for the winner of the actual two man race is printed in either red or blue on a white background  Black type on white always indicates a losing effort. We will share our analysis with you  in a future article.

	Straight Party		Romney		Obama		Coston	McCready
Precinct	Republican	Democrat	Total	%SP	Total	%SP	Total	Total
Bloomfield 1	252	152	432	58	330	46	261	448	Bloomfield TV
Bloomfield 2	180	131	271	66	238	55	193	276	Whethersfield Apts
Bloomfield 3	294	239	531	55	541	44	437	547	Doyle Center
Bloomfield 4	339	207	548	62	420	49	335	565	Model Hs
Bloomfield 5	261	144	458	57	316	46	280	440	Andover Hs
Bloomfield 6	366	133	658	56	359	37	265	687	Township Fire #2
Bloomfield 7	141	132	250	56	272	49	220	258	Marian HS
Bloomfield 8	723	141	1314	55	494	29	338	1347	Covington school
Bloomfield 9	408	190	718	57	468	41	367	723	Detroit  Country Day
Bloomfield 10	343	277	610	56	619	45	515	611	Doyle Center 2
Bloomfield 11	364	247	611	60	543	45	428	614	West Maple Elementary
Bloomfield 12	260	270	492	53	494	55	417	482	BH Babtist Church
Bloomfield 13	306	109	569	54	336	32	237	591	Harlan Elementary
Bloomfield 14	439	120	706	62	381	31	271	726	Eastover school
Bloomfield 15	220	104	377	58	213	49	174	386	Conant School
Bloomfield 16	203	223	403	50	462	48	384	414	West Maple Elementary 2
Bloomfield 17	109	116	187	58	232	50	196	186	Township Fire # 4
Bloomfield 18	232	133	388	60	305	44	243	396	East Hills Middle School
Bloomfield 19	365	164	599	61	361	45	277	611	Way Elementary
Bloomfield 20	181	202	367	49	403	50	336	373	Fox Hills Elementary
Bloomfield 21	327	165	558	59	347	48	280	567	Adam Woods
Bloomfield 22	341	234	623	55	526	44	421	629	Township Central Fire Station
Bloomfield 23	278	88	491	57	234	38	179	486	Detroit  Country Day-Bradway
Bloomfield 24	303	139	476	64	306	45	246	487	Lahser HS
Bloomfield 25	77	200	127	61	341	59	308	130	Fox Hills Elementary 2
Bloomfield 26	281	122	501	56	295	41	223	519	International  Academy
Bloomfield 27	120	178	196	61	322	55	279	199	St. Paul Methodist
Bloomfield 28	204	48	367	56	168	29	117	382	RV Hackett Hall
Bloomfield 29	297	99	473	63	235	42	185	459	BH  Babtist Church #2
Bloomfield 30	376	247	690	54	618	40	477	706	Bloomfield Hils Middle School
Bloomfield 31	269	62	386	70	142	44	112	393	The Heathers Club
Bloomfield 32	255	215	433	59	421	51	354	450	Bowers Farm
Total	9114	5231	15810	58	11742	45	9355	16088
	REP TICKET	DemTicket	Romney		Obama		Coston	McCready
W. Bloomfield 1	283	413	733	39	930	44	833	682	Orchard Lake School
W. Bloomfield 3	153	207	355	43	393	53	352	334	Pine Hill Middlebelt
W. Bloomfield 7	177	357	425	42	756	47	656	396	Doherty School
W. Bloomfield 9	186	366	463	40	812	45	685	443	Beth AL Farmington schools
W. Bloomfield 10	389	387	882	44	969	40	799	830	Beth AL Birmingham Schools
W. Bloomfield 11	233	525	544	43	1057	50	948	483	5300 Maple Lutheran Church
W. Bloomfield 13	297	331	706	42	868	38	723	658	West Hills Middle School
W. Bloomfield 15	365	539	795	46	1164	46	1012	737	Library
W. Bloomfield 16	452	358	942	48	823	43	679	894	Lone Pine Elementary
W. Bloomfield 17	284	447	726	39	961	47	843	646	Holy Spirit Lutheran Orchard Lk
W. Bloomfield 19	188	540	456	41	969	56	891	415	Covenant Babtist 5800 maple
Total	3007	4470	7027	43	9702		8421	6518	Total
	Rep Ticket	DemTicket	Romney	%SP	Obama		Coston	McCready
Birmingham 1	471	218	883	53	633	34	448	933	Holy Name
Birmingham 2	440	255	816	54	685	37	477	894	Derby Middle School
Birmingham 3	335	271	674	50	675	40	521	713	Derby Middle School
Birmingham 4	566	166	1035	55	566	29	389	1091	First Presbyterian Church,
Birmingham 5	422	212	842	50	652	33	476	902	Midvale
Birmingham 6	506	264	916	55	727	36	536	927	Municipal Building
Birmingham 7	389	279	769	51	722	39	550	796	Pierce School
Birmingham 8	318	269	621	51	633	42	481	629	Adams Fire Station
Birmingham 9	291	217	551	53	532	41	419	538	Ice Arena
Total	3738	2151	7107	53	5825	37	4297	7423	Total
	Rep Ticket	DemTicket	Romney	%SP	Obama		Coston	McCready
City of BH 1	604	221	1014	60	535	41	405	1052	City Hall
City of BH 2	491	128	830	59	381	34	481	834	Church
Total	1095	349	1844	59	916	38	886	1886
Grand Total
	Rep Ticket	DemTicket	Romney	%SP	Obama	%SP	Coston	McCready
Bloomfield Township	9914	5231	15180	65	11742	45	9355	16088
West Bloomfield	3007	4470	6946	43	9387	48	8421	6518
Birmingham	3738	2151	7107	53	5825	37	4297	7423
City of BH	1095	349	1844	59	916	38	698	1886
Total	17754	12201	31077	57	27870	44	22771	31915

.All of the above data, maps, and graphs we used  are  available to anyone thanks
Oakland County Elections under the direction of County Clerk Bill Bullard Jr. Clicking on the red link will take you to their website. In addition you will find similar data for all  County elections  including City of Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, and Bloomfield Township and West Bloomfield elections going back almost twenty years. There is also a complete section on campaign financing telling one, who spent what on what and how that money was arrived at. It is easy for anyone to read. We present it here simply as convenience. As often the case in politics and life in general  things change. Mr. Bullard was not re-elected as County Clerk in the November 6th election. We hope his successor Lisa Brown will continue what Mr. Bullard and  the county have started . Regrettably we live in a time where providing public information often is secondary to cost cutting . We hope that will not be the case with Oakland County Elections and data and the assistance they provide.