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Apart from Measure P, which we covered yesterday, the hottest items on the ballot last month were the City of Eureka races — two city council seats and Measure R, which would have raised the minimum wage paid by many local businesses to $12 an hour. As we know, the progressive side of the city’s political classes won the city council races — leading to the first prog-majority Eureka City Council in a while — and lost the minimum wage measure.

How did Eureka’s neighborhoods vote? The elections office divided the city into 14 precincts this go-round, which gives you a certain sense of things but not a great deal of fine resolution. A good rule of thumb is: The further away from downtown you are, the more conservative your neighborhood is likely to be.

You see this best in the city’s closest race, in which progressive-side challenger Kim Bergel just barely toppled conservative-side incumbent Mike Newman in the Third Ward race. In the map below, Bergel is blue and Newman red. Darker colors mean higher proportion of voters going for that candidate:

Again: Click on the map to get raw vote totals for a particular precinct.

The Fifth Ward race was a different story: Progressive challenger Natalie Arroyo won every single precinct in the city, a feat that — if memory serves — has not been accomplished since Frank Jager v. George Clark in 2008. You can still see the city’s geopolitical divide in the Third Ward map below, though we had to adjust the color scale somewhat to distinguish where she won big from where she absolutely crushed.

North still equals prog, south still equals con. Arroyo took the Lundbar Hills neighborhood by only two votes.

The Fair Wage Ordinance — Measure R — lost in every precinct of the city save the downtown/Old Town area.

Want to request a map for any other race on the ballot? Leave me a message in the comments, here, and I will probably accommodate you.