2020 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 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 G20PRERTRU - Donald J. Trump (Republican Party) G20PREDBID - Joseph R. Biden (Democratic Party) G20PRELJOR - Jo Jorgensen (Libertarian Party) G20PREMHAW - Howie Hawkins (Mountain Party) G20USSRCAP - Shelley Moore Capito (Republican Party) G20USSDSWE - Paula Jean Swearengin (Democratic Party) G20USSLMOR - David Moran (Libertarian Party) G20GOVRJUS - Jim Justice (Republican Party) G20GOVDSAL - Ben Salango (Democratic Party) G20GOVLKOL - Erika Kolenich (Libertarian Party) G20GOVMLUT - Daniel P. "Danny" Lutz (Mountain 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 2020 general election. Voting districts in nearly all counties were edited accordingly to align with reporting units in the 2020 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, 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 2020 general election results. Brooke: Merge 1/6, 4/5, 23B/23D, 25/26, 28/31 Cabell: Merge 7/7-2, 34-2/54; Split 11/15 Gilmer: Merge 16/20, 17/18 Hancock: Merge 17/18 Lincoln: Consolidate 28 precincts into 16 precincts Logan: Merge 39/56, 37/40; Split 5A/5B, 7A/7B, 45A/45B Marshall: Merge 1/44, 6/7, 13/14, 20/23/25, 26/28/30 Ohio: Merge 64/69; Split 103/103A, 104A/108A, 141/141A Pendleton: Merge 1/2, 5/6, 11/12, 13/15 Putnam: Merge 24/29, 28/48 Roane: Merge 11/12 Tyler: Merge 1/7, 10/12 Wayne: Merge 3 into 1/30, 11/12, 34/38 Wirt: Split 7/7A Wood: Merge 41/41U, 71/71U, 84 into 82/85 Wyoming: Split 306/307