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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

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

 
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