2017 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/VNJAB1

Election results from individual county canvass reports or election reporting websites (https://nj.gov/state/elections/vote-county-election-officials.shtml). 
The precinct results from Warren County include 5 votes for Phil Murphy (D) and 23 votes for Kim Guadagno (R) that are not in the official state results. These 28 votes total are from Liberty Township.
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
ATG - Attorney General
GOV - Governor
HOD - House of Delegates, accompanied by a HOD_DIST column indicating district number
LTG - Lieutenant Governor
SOV - Senate of Virginia, accompanied by a SOV_DIST column indicating district number
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

G17GOVDMUR - Philip Murphy (Democratic Party)
G17GOVRGUA - Kim Guadagno (Republican Party)
G17GOVLROH - Peter J. Rohrman (Libertarian Party)
G17GOVGKAP - Seth Kaper-Dale (Green Party)
G17GOVCRIC - Matthew Riccardi (Constitution Party)
G17GOVOGEN - Gina Genovese (Reduce Property Taxes)
G17GOVOROS - Vincent Ross (We the People)

## Processing Steps

All counties except Sussex and Warren report mail votes and provisional votes at the municipal and/or ward level. Essex County further subdivides these vote types by other districts on the same ballot. 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 2017.

Hudson: Merge Jersey City Ward E 9/24, 6/25; Realign Union City Ward 9 precincts
Passaic: Merge Pompton Lakes 3/6