2018 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/UBKYRU

Election results primarily from individual county canvass reports via OpenElections (https://github.com/openelections/openelections-data-nj/). Results from Camden, Cape May, Essex, Hunterdon, Middlesex, and Salem 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

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

G18USSDMEN - Robert Menendez (Democratic Party)
G18USSRHUG - Bob Hugin (Republican Party)
G18USSLSAB - Murray Sabrin (Libertarian Party)
G18USSGHOF - Madelyn R. Hoffman (Green Party)
G18USSORIV - Natalie Lynn Rivera (For The People)
G18USSOFLA - Tricia Flanagan (New Day NJ)
G18USSOKIM - Kevin Kimple (Make It Simple)
G18USSOSCH - Hank Schroeder (Economic Growth)

## 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, Salem, and Sussex reported 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 2018.

Hudson: Merge Jersey City Ward E 9/24, 6/25