2020 New Mexico precinct and election shapefile.

## RDH Date retrieval
11/22/21

## Sources
Election results from the New Mexico Secretary of State (http://electionresults.sos.state.nm.us/).
Precinct shapefiles from the New Mexico Secretary of State via the University of New Mexico Resource Geographic Information System (https://rgis.unm.edu/rgis6/). All counties are from the NM Voting Precincts 2021 shapefile except for Roosevelt County which is from the NM Voting Precincts 2012 shapefile.

## 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, S for a special, and R for a runoff.
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 - Agriculture Commissioner
ATG - Attorney General
AUD - Auditor
COC - Corporation Commissioner
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.
INS - Insurance Commissioner
LAB - Labor Commissioner
LAN - Commissioner of Public Lands
LTG - Lieutenant Governor
PRE - President
PSC - Public Service Commissioner
RRC - Railroad Commissioner
SAC - State Appeals Court (in AL: Civil Appeals)
SCC - State Court of Criminal Appeals
SOS - Secretary of State
SSC - State Supreme Court
SPI - Superintendent of Public Instruction
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
G20PREDBID - Joseph R. Biden (Democratic Party)
G20PRERTRU - Donald J. Trump (Republican Party)
G20PRELJOR - Jo Jorgensen (Libertarian Party)
G20PREGHAW - Howie Hawkins (Green Party)
G20PRECTIT - Sheila "Samm" Tittle (Constitution Party)
G20PRESLAR - Gloria La Riva (Party for Socialism and Liberation)

G20USSDLUJ - Ben R. Lujan (Democratic Party)
G20USSRRON - Mark V. Ronchetti (Republican Party)
G20USSLWAL - Bob Walsh (Libertarian Party)

G20SSCDBAC - Shannon Bacon (Democratic Party)
G20SSCRFUL - Ned S. Fuller (Republican Party)

G20SSCDTHO - David K. Thomson (Democratic Party)
G20SSCRMOR - Kerry J. Morris (Republican Party)

G20SACDIVE - Zach Ives (Democratic Party)
G20SACRJOH - Barbara V. Johnson (Republican Party)

G20SACDHEN - Shammara H. Henderson (Democratic Party)
G20SACRLEE - Gertrude Lee (Republican Party)
G20SACLCUR - Stephen P. Curtis (Libertarian Party)

G20SACDYOH - Jane B. Yohalem (Democratic Party)
G20SACRMON - Thomas C. Montoya (Republican Party)

## Processing Steps
The following precincts were merged to reverse splits enacted after the 2020 general election.

Lea: 8/13, 22/37, 23/38, 26/39, 40/41
Lincoln: 3/27/28, 5/26, 7/25, 8/29, 9/24, 11/23
Los Alamos: 5/6, 11/12
Rio Arriba: 38/40, 45/47
Roosevelt: 9/20, 10/21
Valencia: 4/63, 39/64, 44/65, 59/66

Los Alamos County precincts were renumbered and precincts 7/8 were then adjusted to match the 2020 county PDF map. Valencia County precincts 54/55 were adjusted to match the 2020 county precinct viewer.