2018 Washington precinct and election shapefile.

## RDH Date retrieval
12/04/2024

## Sources
Election results and precinct shapefile from Washington Secretary of State (https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/research/election-results-and-voters-pamphlets.aspx)

King County Precinct 8888 is the Elections Office. This was added to the 2018 shapefile from the 2020 King County precinct shapefile. Yakima County Precinct 001 is the Elections Office. This was added to the 2018 shapefile using the Yakima County parcel shapefile.

Note: In order to improve the ease of disaggregating this file to the census block level, all precincts are clipped by the TIGER shapes of their respective counties.

## 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
G18USSDCAN - Maria Cantwell (Democratic Party)
G18USSRHUT - Susan Hutchison (Republican Party)