2016 New Jersey precinct and election results shapefile.

## RDH Date retrieval
10/04/2022

## Sources
This file was retrieved from VEST at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NH5S2I

Election results primarily from individual county canvass reports via OpenElections (https://github.com/openelections/openelections-data-nj/). Results from Burlington, Camden, Middlesex, and Warren counties were partly or wholly replaced using the Statement of the Vote from the respective counties.
Precinct shapefile from New Jersey Geographic Information Network (https://njogis-newjersey.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/election-districts-for-new-jersey). Naval Weapons Station Earle in Monmouth County was added as an unassigned district.

## Fields metadata

Vote Column Label Format
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Columns reporting votes follow a standard label pattern. One example is:
G20PRERTRU
The first character is G for a general election, C for recount results, 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 - Commissioner of Agriculture
ATG - Attorney General
AUD - Auditor
COM - Comptroller
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.
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 - Commissioner of Insurance
LAB - Commissioner of Labor
LTG - Lieutenant Governor
LND - Commissioner of Public Lands
PRE - President
PSC - Public Service Commissioner
PUC - Public Utilities Commissioner
RGT - State University Regent
RRC - Railroad Commissioner
SAC - State Court of Appeals
SCC - State Court of Criminal Appeals
SOS - Secretary of State
SOV - Senate of Virginia, accompanied by a SOV_DIST column indicating district number
SPI - Superintendent of Public Instruction
SSC - State Supreme Court
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

G16PREDCLI - Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democratic Party)
G16PRERTRU - Donald J. Trump (Republican Party)
G16PRELJOH - Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party)
G16PREGSTE - Jill Stein (Green Party)
G16PRECCAS - Darrell Castle (Constitution Party)
G16PREOKEN - Alyson Kennedy (Socialist Workers Party)
G16PREOFUE - Rocky Roque De La Fuente (American Delta Party)
G16PREOMOO - Monica Moorehead (Workers World Party)
G16PREOLAR - Gloria La Riva (Socialism and Liberation)

## Processing Steps

All counties except Sussex and Warren report mail votes and provisional votes at the municipal and/or ward level. Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Monmouth, Ocean, and Union further subdivide these vote types by other districts on the same ballot. Camden, Cape May, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Monmouth, Morris, Sussex, and Warren report overseas ballots countywide or by congressional district. All votes were distributed by candidate to precincts based on their share of the precinct-level reported vote of the respective reporting unit.

The following modifications to the shapefile were made to reverse changes in precinct boundaries enacted since 2016.

Gloucester: Merge Glassboro 1/13
Hudson: Merge Jersey City Ward E 9/24, 6/25; Realign Union City Ward 9 precincts
Passaic: Merge Pompton Lakes 3/6
Union: Merge Elizabeth City W1 6/9, W2 2/11, W3 10/13, W4 7/10; Adjust Elizabeth City W2 4/7, 6/7, W3 3/6, W6 1/5