Like many political junkies, I’m forever addicted to the color-coded maps distributed on Election Night through the Secretary of State’s website. And while you can’t draw too many conclusions from a county by county glance, there were some trends worth noting from Tuesday (even with still unofficial results).

*Biggest Splits: The traditional liberal/conservative split in California seems to have reappeared in the battle over three of the initiatives: Proposition 73 (parental abortion notification), Proposition 74 (teacher tenure), and Proposition 75 (union dues). Each of these measures apparently carried 33 of California’s 58 counties. Of course, the counties that voted “no” have more voters and are usually more liberal.

*Biggest Routs: The remaining five initiatives were pretty much landslides for the “no” votes on Tuesday. But that includes two of Governor Schwarzenegger’s key proposals, which may be an indication of how little support there was for those measures even among his base. Proposition 76 (budget), the centerpiece of the governor’s reform proposal, lost in a whopping 53 counties. So, too, did Proposition 77 (redistricting).

* Swimming Upstream: You’d be hard pressed to find many similarities between San Francisco and Imperial counties. But both showed an independent streak on Tuesday: they were each the lone holdout on different ballot initiatives.

Imperial appears to have been the only county in the state to approve Proposition 78, the pharmaceutical industry’s prescription drug initiative. (Prop 79, the consumer groups alternative, actually won in 3 counties)

San Francisco, meanwhile, was the only place in the state where the confusing (and almost politically invisible) energy regulation initiative, Proposition 80, passed. In fact, more than 1 of every 3 “yes” votes for Prop 80 in California came from the City By The Bay.