Our color-coded guide to the November election continues today with a look at King County Executive Dow Constantine's decisive win over conservative Susan Hutchison. (On Tuesday we mapped out the mayor's race and yesterday we looked at R-71.)

Red: Constantine wins 90% and above
Orange: 80% - 89%
Yellow: 70% - 79%
Light Green: 60% -69%
Dark Green: 50% - 59%
Light Blue: 40% - 49%
Dark Blue: 39% or below

The analysis here is pretty dire for Republicans. Hutchison, a popular and charismatic candidate, needed to win the dark green areas (Shoreline, Redmond, Bellevue, Kent, and Des Moines) to have a chance. It didn't happen.

The only silver lining for the GOP, Constantine is a uniquely popular candidate and had higher-than-typical numbers, in the high 70s, in most of Seattle.

(He also scored over 90 percent in a mysterious East Side precinct of flaming liberals. R-71 was up over 90 percent there too. We're looking into what hippie commune occupies this sliver of the 48th legislative district.)



Map by John Wyble at WinPower.

If you want to nerd out with an interactive version of the map, go here.