2016 Louisiana precinct and election results shapefile.

## RDH Date retrieval
11/26/2020

## Sources
Election results from LA Secretary of State: https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/static/2016-11-08
Precinct shapefile from LA House of Representatives: http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Redistricting2011/default_LouisianaPrecinctShapefiles

## 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
G16PRERTRU - Donald J. Trump (Republican Party)
G16PREDCLI - Hillary Clinton (Democratic Party)
G16PRELJOH - Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party)
G16PREGSTE - Jill Stein (Green Party)
G16PREOMCM - Evan McMullin (Courage Character Service Party)
G16PRECCAS - Darrell Castle (Constitution Party)
G16PREOOTH - Other Candidates

G16USSRKEN - John Kennedy (Republican Party)
G16USSRBOU - Charles Boustany (Republican Party)
G16USSRFLE - John Fleming (Republican Party)
G16USSRMAN - Rob Maness (Republican Party)
G16USSRDUK - David Duke (Republican Party)
G16USSRCRA - Donald "Crawdaddy" Crawford (Republican Party)
G16USSRCAO - Joseph Cao (Republican Party)
G16USSRMAR - Charles Marsala (Republican Party)
G16USSRPAT - Abhay Patel (Republican Party)
G16USSDCAM - Foster Campbell (Democratic Party)
G16USSDFAY - Caroline Fayard (Democratic Party)
G16USSDEDW - Derrick Edwards (Democratic Party)
G16USSDLAN - Gary Landrieu (Democratic Party)
G16USSDPEL - Joshua Pellerin (Democratic Party)
G16USSDWIL - Peter Williams (Democratic Party)
G16USSDMEN - MV "Vinny" Mendoza (Democratic Party)
G16USSLCLE - Thomas P. Clements (Libertarian Party)
G16USSLGIL - Le Roy Gillam (Libertarian Party)
G16USSOLAN - William Robert "Bob" Lang, Jr. (Other Party)
G16USSOTAY - Gregory Taylor, Jr. (Other Party)
G16USSNBIL - Beryl Billiot (No Party Affiliation)
G16USSNHEB - Troy Hebert (No Party Affiliation)
G16USSNMAR - Kaitlin Marone (No Party Affiliation)
G16USSNWEL - Arden Wells (No Party Affiliation)

R16USSRKEN - John Kennedy (Republican Party)
R16USSDCAM - Foster Campbell (Democratic Party)

## Processing Steps
Absentee votes and provisional ballots were reported at the parish level. These were distributed by candidate to precincts based on their share of the precinct-level reported vote.

Election results from the following parishes include "alpha" precincts in which voters within the same geographic boundaries are assigned to separate precincts by the first letter of their surname: Ascension, Assumption, Bossier, Caddo, East Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lafourche, Rapides, St. Charles, St. Landry, Terrebonne

The following precincts were modified to reflect alterations enacted prior to the 2016 election:

Avoyelles: Merge 2-5B/6-1A
Plaquemines: Merge 2-1/2-2, 4-1/4-2, 5-1/5-2
St. Charles: Merge 2-6/2-7, 3-1/3-6, 3-3/3-4, 6-2/6-3, 6-4/6-5
Vermilion: Split 49B-1/49B-2
West Baton Rouge: Split 2-A/2-B; 11-A/11-B