A precinct-level map of Menlo Park City Council District 2 — the Willows, Suburban Park, Lorelei Manor, and the Flood Triangle, where incumbent Drew Combs is up for re-election in November 2026. It shades all 11 precincts by registered voters, then lets you switch in three more views: 2018→2026 vote growth, renters versus homeowners, and where Combs ran softest in his contested 2018 race. Click any precinct for its party split, housing tenure, 2022 turnout and vote-by-mail rate, and 2018 results.
You don't run a District 2 race across 11 precincts — you run it across three, by mail.
The district's electorate is extraordinarily concentrated: precinct 44008 alone holds 37% of all registered voters, the top three precincts hold two-thirds, and the top six cover 95%. The bottom five precincts together hold barely 100 voters. And this is a vote-by-mail district — Nov 2022 ran 73.6% turnout at 94% by mail. The strategic implication is direct: a disciplined absentee-ballot program aimed at a handful of precincts reaches almost the entire electorate, while precinct-walking the long tail spends shoe leather on rounding error. The map exists to make that concentration impossible to miss — and to flag, via the 2018 layer, the precincts where the incumbent's last contested margin was thinnest.
District 2 isn't a clean set of precincts — it's a boundary drawn through them. We started from the City of Menlo Park's official council-district boundary (pulled from the city's GIS server) and intersected it with San Mateo County's voter precincts, keeping the 11 precincts that fall inside the Willows / Suburban Park / Lorelei Manor / Flood Triangle area between Middlefield Road and US-101. The resulting universe is ~4,272 registered voters, matching the county's official District 2 count of 4,276.
Registration and party are current 2026 figures from the San Mateo County Registrar of Voters, summarized per precinct: District 2 runs 63% Democratic, 23% No Party Preference, 10% Republican — the most Democratic district in the city. Housing tenure (renters vs. homeowners) is derived from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey and assigned to precincts through the Statewide Database block-to-precinct file, so each precinct's owner/renter mix is weighted by where its registered voters actually live.
Two layers add history. Vote growth (2018→2026) compares each precinct's registered-voter base across the two cycles, flagging where the district has grown or shrunk (precincts that were renumbered between cycles are marked rather than guessed). The 2018 Combs softness layer shades precincts by Drew Combs's vote share in his last contested race — the 2018 council election against Keith — so the precincts where he ran below the line stand out from the ones he locked down. The November 2022 figures in each popup (turnout, vote-by-mail rate, and Combs's unopposed vote total) come from the county's Statement of Vote.
Every precinct is clickable. The panel reports 2026 registration and party split, owner/renter share, Nov 2022 turnout and the 94%-and-up vote-by-mail rate, and the 2018 Combs-vs-Keith result where one exists. The dashboard is a single self-contained file — no server, no login — so it can be handed to a candidate or consultant and opened straight from a laptop.
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