2018 Utah precinct and election shapefile.

## RDH Date retrieval
07/12/2020

## Sources
Election results from OpenElections (http://openelections.net/)
Shapefile from the Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center (https://gis.utah.gov/data/political/voter-precincts/)

## 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
A## - Ballot amendment, where ## is an identifier
AGR - Commissioner of Agriculture
ATG - Attorney General
AUD - Auditor
CFO - Chief Financial Officer
CHA - Council Chairman
COC - Corporation Commissioner
COM - Comptroller
CON - State Controller
COU - City Council Member
CSC - Clerk of the Supreme Court
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 - Insurance Commissioner
LAB - Labor Commissioner
LND - Commissioner of Public/State Lands
LTG - Lieutenant Governor
MAY - Mayor
MNI - State Mine Inspector
PSC - Public Service Commissioner
PUC - Public Utilities Commissioner
RGT - State University Regent
SAC - State Appeals Court
SBE - State Board of Education
SOC - Secretary of Commonwealth
SOS - Secretary of State
SPI - Superintendent of Public Instruction
SPL - Commissioner of School and Public Lands
SSC - State Supreme Court
TAX - Tax Commissioner
TRE - Treasurer
UBR - University Board of Regents/Trustees/Governors
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
G18USSRROM - Mitt Romney (Republican Party)
G18USSDWIL - Jenny Wilson (Democratic Party)
G18USSIMCC - Reed C. McCandless (Independent American Party)
G18USSLBOW - Craig R. Bowden (Libertarian Party)
G18USSCAAL - Tim Aalders (Conservative Party)
G18USSOWRI - Write-in Votes

## Processing Steps
Several transcription errors were corrected from OpenElections using their raw results gathered from counties (https://github.com/openelections/openelections-sources-ut/tree/master/2018%20General%20Election). OE results in Rich and Morgan Counties were based on non-final reports, which were collected from county sources.

Emery County - 8 "canvas votes" were distributed to precincts.

Weber County - 6 precincts had their results suppressed, since all cast fewer than 15 votes, for a total of 42 votes. These were distributed based on the number of votes cast and the reported vote in 2016, which was not suppressed.