2016 US Presidential Election precinct-level returns
This dataset contains precinct-level returns for elections to the U.S. presidency on November 8, 2016.
Codebook
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LYWX3D
Originally retrieved from https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api/access/datafile/:persistentId?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LYWX3D/BQJYO0
Version: 2018-08-02
This codebook describes a dataset on precinct-level returns for elections to the U.S. presidency.
Each record in the dataset gives the number of votes reported from a precinct for a candidate.
Variables
The dataset contains the following variables:
year
state
state_postal
state_fips
state_icpsr
county_name
county_ansi
county_fips
county_lat
county_long
jurisdiction
precinct
office
district
stage
special
candidate
candidate_last
candidate_first
candidate_middle
candidate_normalized
candidate_full
candidate_suffix
candidate_nickname
candidate_fec
candidate_fec_name
candidate_google
candidate_govtrack
candidate_icpsr
candidate_maplight
candidate_opensecrets
candidate_wikidata
candidate_party
writein
party
mode
votes
year
Year of election.
state
State name.
state_postal
State U.S. Postal Service abbreviation (two-letter ISO 1366 code).
state_fips
Numeric state FIPS 5-2 code.
state_icpsr
Numeric ICPSR state code.
county_name
County name.
Source: Census Bureau National Counties Gazetteer File.
county_ansi
County ANSI code.
Source: Census Bureau National Counties Gazetteer File.
county_fips
Numeric FIPS 6-4 code, the concatenation of two-digit state_fips
and three-
digit county FIPS codes.
Source: Census Bureau National Counties Gazetteer File.
county_lat
County latitude (decimal degrees).
Source: Census Bureau National Counties Gazetteer File.
county_long
County longitude (decimal degrees).
Source: Census Bureau National Counties Gazetteer File.
jurisdiction
The name of the administrative jurisdiction, typically a county, as it appeared in source data.
Source: Precinct returns for jurisdiction
.
precinct
The name of the precinct, as it appeared in source data.
Source: Precinct returns for jurisdiction
.
office
The office for which the candidate
ran.
Source: Precinct returns for jurisdiction
.
district
District associated with the office
, where applicable.
Source: Precinct returns for jurisdiction
.
stage
The electoral stage, either gen
for general elections or pri
for primary
elections.
special
Whether the election was a special election, either TRUE
for special
elections or FALSE
otherwise.
Source: Precinct returns for jurisdiction
.
candidate
The name of the candidate.
Candidate names are standardized across jurisdictions.
Source: Precinct returns for jurisdiction
.
candidate_last
Candidate's last name.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_first
Candidate's first name.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_middle
Candidate's middle name.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_normalized
A normalizing transformation of the candidate's name for joins by name. This is
a single word from candidate
, usually the last name, in lowercase. In the
case of hyphenated names, only the final name is included.
Source: MEDSL.
candidate_full
Candidate's official full name.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_suffix
Candidate name suffix.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_nickname
Candidate's nickname.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_fec
Candidate's FEC
identifier. Multiple FEC
IDs appear concatenated, separated by a semicolon and space (;
).
Source: The @unitedstates project and FEC.
candidate_fec_name
Candidate's name as it appears in FEC data.
Source: FEC.
candidate_google
Candidate's Google Knowledge Graph(https://developers.google.com/knowledge- graph) entity identifier.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_govtrack
Candidate's GovTrack.us identifier.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_icpsr
Candidate's ICPSR identifier.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_maplight
Candidate's MapLight identifier.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_opensecrets
Candidate's OpenSecrets.org identifier.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_wikidata
Candidate's WikiData identifier.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
candidate_party
Candidate's party affiliation. Values may differ from party
, which gives the
candidate's party on the ballot.
Source: The @unitedstates project.
writein
Whether the record describes a write-in candidate, either TRUE
or FALSE
.
Source: Precinct returns for jurisdiction
.
party
Party of the candidate
, where applicable. Candidates may run on multiple
party lines, so to compute two-party vote shares or candidate vote totals,
aggregate over party
.
Party names are standardized across jurisdictions.
Source: Precinct returns for jurisdiction
.
mode
Vote mode, e.g., mail
or Election Day
.
Source: Precinct returns for jurisdiction
.
votes
Number of votes received.
Source: Precinct returns for jurisdiction
.
Examples
- US Election example that uses a Splitfile to join this dataset with the US Census data.
- PostGIS example that joins this dataset with US Election precinct shape data to plot voting patterns in NY county.
- county_votes sample Splitfile that joins this dataset with the Geonames dataset to create a table of Trump/Clinton votes in each county as well as that county's population.
Source
MIT Election Data and Science Lab, 2018, "U.S. President Precinct-Level Returns 2016", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LYWX3D, Harvard Dataverse, V11, UNF:6:hQyVqHW+vTFnAW2jYIOy/Q== fileUNF
- precinct_results20 Objects| 27 MB |1.99M Rows