2018 West Virginia precinct and election results shapefile. ## RDH Date retrieval 08/17/2022 ## Sources Election results from the West Virginia Secretary of State (https://sos.wv.gov/elections/Pages/HistElecResults.aspx). Precinct shapefiles from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 Redistricting Data Program unless otherwise specified. The following use shapefiles sourced from the respective county governments: Barbour, Berkeley, Brooke, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Grant, Hancock, Harrison, Jefferson, Kanawha, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Mineral, Monongalia, Monroe, Morgan, Ohio, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Raleigh, Summers, Taylor, Upshur, Wayne, Wood. The following use shapefiles provided by the West Virginia GIS Technical Center (https://wvgis.wvu.edu/index.php): Boone, Hampshire, Lewis, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Putnam, Roane, Wyoming. ## 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 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 LAN - Commissioner of General Land Office 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 RRC - Railroad Commissioner SAC - State Appeals Court (in AL: Civil Appeals) SBE - State Board of Education SCC - State Court of Criminal Appeals 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 G18USSRMOR - Patrick Morrisey (Republican Party) G18USSDMAN - Joseph Manchin, III (Democratic Party) G18USSLHOL - Rusty Hollen (Libertarian Party) ## Processing Steps Precinct boundaries were adjusted as appropriate to align with county maps, election districts, or municipal wards. Precinct boundaries throughout the state were further reviewed with the voter registration file in effect for the November 2018 general election. Voting districts in nearly all counties were edited accordingly to align with reporting units in the 2018 election results. In many counties the resulting boundaries differ substantially from the 2020 Census VTDs. As these boundary revisions were so extensive only splits and merges are specified below by precinct. In certain areas voter assignments appear so interspersed that it is impractical to place all voters within their assigned precinct. These areas were edited so as to place as many voters as possible within their assigned precinct without displacing a greater number from their assigned precinct. In McDowell County precincts 84/85, 102/103, 107/109 have such a great degree of overlap in voter assignments that they may be better combined for some statistical data purposes. The boundaries were determined based on how the majority of residents were assigned on each street range. Election results from the following counties include "alpha" precincts in which voters within the same geographic boundaries are assigned to separate precincts by the first letter of their surname: Cabell, Jefferson, Kanawha, Mingo, Monongalia, Nicholas, Pendleton, Putnam, Wood. These are signified in precinct results with an A/B or 1/2 designation except in Kanawha County where precincts 202/203 are an alpha split of geographic precinct 203 and in Wood County where 62/62A are an alpha split signified in the same manner as geographic subprecincts. In Jackson County all precincts were renumbered to match county maps. A scattering of precincts across the state were also renumbered to match the voter file. The following splits and merges were made to align voting district boundaries with reporting units in the November 2018 general election results. Barbour: Split 11/16/15, 13/14 Brooke: Merge 1/6, 4/5, 23B/23D, 25/26, 28/31 Cabell: Merge 7/7-2, 34-2/54; Split 11/15 Fayette: Split 23/24, 28/37 Gilmer: Merge 16/20, 17/18 Kanawha: Split 117A/123, 160A/163, 175A/178, 277A/279, 403A/404 Lincoln: Consolidate 28 precincts into 16 precincts Logan: Split 5A/5B, 7A/7B, 45A/45B Marion: Split 32/35, 96/104/113F, 121/122 Marshall: Split 39/39W Mercer: Split 56/57 Mineral: Split 12/15, 19/20 Ohio: Merge 64/69; Split 103/103A, 104A/108A, 141/141A Pendleton: Merge 13/15 Putnam: Merge 24/29, 28/48 Roane: Merge 11/12 Summers: Split 7/9 Wayne: Merge 3 into 1/30, 11/12, 34/38 Wirt: Split 7/7A Wood: Merge 41/41U, 71/71U Wyoming: Split 306/307