2016 Iowa precinct and election results shapefile.

## RDH Date retrieval
11/26/2020

## Sources
Election results from IA Democratic Party: http://iowademocrats.org/final-precinct-results-for-2016-iowa-democratic-party-caucuses/ (original url)
Precinct shapefile from IA Secretary of State: https://sos.iowa.gov/shapefiles/

The Iowa Democratic Party did not report individual vote tallies for the 2016 Iowa caucuses. The caucus results are State Delegate Equivalents that represent the number of state convention delegates that the candidates received based on the caucus results. The SDE figures are multiplied by 100 following the standard practice of the Associated Press since precinct-level SDE figures are provided as very small fractions in the actual caucus reports.

The precinct results do not include the state delegates awarded via satellite locations for participants with hardship exceptions or via tele-caucus for voters abroad. The satellite locations awarded 2 state delegates to Hillary Clinton and 1 state delegate to Bernie Sanders. The tele-caucus awarded 1 state delegate to Hillary Clinton and 1 state delegate to Bernie Sanders.

## Fields metadata

Vote Column Label Format
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Columns reporting votes follow a standard label pattern. One example is:
G16PREDCli
The first character is G for a general election, P for a primary, C for a caucus, R for a runoff, S for a special.
Characters 2 and 3 are the year of the election.
Characters 4-6 represent the office type (see list below).
Character 7 represents the party of the candidate.
Characters 8-10 are the first three letters of the candidate's last name.

Office Codes
AGR - Commissioner of Agriculture
ATG - Attorney General
AUD - Auditor
COM - Comptroller
COU - City Council Member
DEL - Delegate to the U.S. House
GOV - Governor
H## - U.S. House, where ## is the district number. AL: at large.
HOD - House of Delegates, accompanied by a HOD_DIST column indicating district number
HOR - U.S. House, accompanied by a HOR_DIST column indicating district number
INS - Commissioner of Insurance
LAB - Commissioner of Labor
LTG - Lieutenant Governor
LND - Commissioner of Public Lands
PRE - President
PSC - Public Service Commissioner
PUC - Public Utilities Commissioner
RGT - State University Regent
RRC - Railroad Commissioner
SAC - State Court of Appeals
SOS - Secretary of State
SOV - Senate of Virginia, accompanied by a SOV_DIST column indicating district number
SPI - Superintendent of Public Instruction
SSC - State Supreme Court
TRE - Treasurer
USS - U.S. Senate

Party Codes
D and R will always represent Democrat and Republican, respectively.
See the state-specific notes for the remaining codes used in a particular file; note that third-party candidates may appear on the ballot under different party labels in different states.

## Fields
C16PREDCLI - Hillary Clinton
C16PREDSAN - Bernie Sanders
C16PREDOMA - Martin O'Malley
C16PREDUNC - Uncommitted

## Processing Steps
The following precincts were merged to match the 2016 caucus results:

Appanoose: Udell/Union
Black Hawk: Cedar Falls W2P2/Cedar Falls Twp
Des Moines: Burlington 1/Tama, Burlington 8/Concordia
Fremont: Hamburg/Washington, Farragut/Shenandoah1
Polk: Grimes 2/Urbandale 12