2016 Michigan precinct and election results shapefile. ## RDH Date retrieval 12/03/2024 ## Sources Election results in part from the Michigan Secretary of State (https://miboecfr.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/cfr/precinct_srch.cgi) and in part from individual county canvass reports. Precinct shapefile from Michigan GIS Open Data (https://gis-michigan.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/2016-voting-precincts/). ## Fields metadata Vote Column Label Format ------------------------ 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 SCC - State Court of Criminal 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 Trump (Republican Party) G16PREDCLI - Hillary Clinton (Democratic Party) G16PRELJOH - Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party) G16PREUCAS - Darrell Castle (US Taxpayers Party) G16PREGSTE - Jill Stein (Green Party) G16PRENSOL - Emidio Soltysik (Natural Law Party) G16SBERMCM - Tom McMillin (Republican Party) G16SBERSNY - Nikki Snyder (Republican Party) G16SBEDAHM - Ish Ahmed (Democratic Party) G16SBEDAUS - John Austin (Democratic Party) G16SBELBOM - Scotty Boman (Libertarian Party) G16SBELHAL - Bill Hall (Libertarian Party) G16SBEUADA - Karen Adams (US Taxpayers Party) G16SBEULEV - Douglas Levesque (US Taxpayers Party) G16SBEGGRI - Derek Grigsby (Green Party) G16SBEGWEL - Sherry Wells (Green Party) G16SBEWHER - Mary Anne Hering (Working Class Party) *University of Michigan* G16UBRRMEY - Carl Meyers (Republican Party) G16UBRRWEI - Ron Weiser (Republican Party) G16UBRDDEI - Laurence Deitch (Democratic Party) G16UBRDILI - Denise Ilitch (Democratic Party) G16UBRLHUD - James Hudler (Libertarian Party) G16UBRLJAS - John Jascob (Libertarian Party) G16UBRUDRI - Audra Driscoll (US Taxpayers Party) G16UBRUHEW - Richard Hewer (US Taxpayers Party) G16UBRGRED - Latham Redding (Green Party) G16UBRNABR - Bridgette Abraham-Guzman (Natural Law Party) *Michigan State University* G16UBRRDEA - William Deary (Republican Party) G16UBRRKEL - Dan Kelly (Republican Party) G16UBRDBYR - Dianne Byrum (Democratic Party) G16UBRDWOO - Diann Woodard (Democratic Party) G16UBRLBUR - Justin Burns (Libertarian Party) G16UBRLSTE - Gregory Stempfle (Libertarian Party) G16UBRUGRA - Angela Grandy (US Taxpayers Party) G16UBRGWHI - Will White (Green Party) *Wayne State University* G16UBRRBUS - Michael Busuito (Republican Party) G16UBRRSHM - Kimberly Shmina (Republican Party) G16UBRDAND - Yvette Anderson (Democratic Party) G16UBRDGAF - Mark Gaffney (Democratic Party) G16UBRLDAS - Bhagwan Dashairya (Libertarian Party) G16UBRLSED - Al Seder (Libertarian Party) G16UBRUGAL - Robert Gale (US Taxpayers Party) G16UBRUSOS - Marc Sosnowski (US Taxpayers Party) G16UBRGGUT - Margaret Guttshall (Green Party) G16UBRGSHO - Fran Shor (Green Party) G16UBRNGOO - Wendy Goossen (Natural Law Party) ## Processing Steps A couple cities that cross county lines reported results from each county while the shapefile had a single precinct. These cross-county precincts were split at the county line with results assigned accordingly. Fenton City - Genesee/Oakland Richmond City - Macomb/St. Clair Although Clare City (Clare/Isabella) and Brown City (Lapeer/Sanilac) also cross county lines the results for statewide elections were reported together by Clare County and Sanilac County respectively. Detroit City reports absentee votes via Absentee Vote Counting Boards. The cross-reference chart of AVCBs to precincts was received from OpenElections (https://github.com/openelections/openelections-sources-mi) and the AVCB votes were distributed accordingly by candidate to precincts based on their share of the precinct-level reported vote.