README.md

STATE YEAR Election Shapefile

This shapefile comes from SOURCE and was matched with YEAR general election results by the Princeton Gerrymandering Project.

Metadata

(Your column names will likely change, these are examples of possible column names for data from a 2018 General Election Governor race.)

• county_nam: County name
• state_fips: State FIPS code
• county_fips: County FIPS code
• precinct: Precinct name
• precinct_old: Pre-edit, pre-merge precinct name (from shapefile)
• G18DGOV: General 2018 Governor Democratic Party Candidate
• G18LGOV: General 2018 Governor Libertarian Party Candidate
• G18RGOV: General 2018 Governor Republican Party Candidate
• geometry: Geometry

Processing

Here, list steps needed for data processing and share stable links to processing scripts.

Sources

Election results

On DATE, downloaded raw data from SOURCE

Shapefiles

On DATE, downloaded shapefile from SOURCE