New Mexico precinct shapefiles with election results from 2016 and 2018. Please note that this file has multiple years of election results on a single precinct shapefile. The RDH has not confirmed whether the precincts on this file represent the geographies that were used for every year of election results on this file.

## RDH Date retrieval
08/12/2020

## Sources
The New Mexico precinct shapefile was obtained from the New Mexico Resource Geographic Information System (RGIS) , which is managed by the Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) at the University of New Mexico. It was processed by members of the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG).
The Congressional, State Senate and State House district map shape files, as well as the 2010 census block shape file are from the US Census Bureau's TIGER/Line Program. 
Precint level elections returns were provided by the  New Mexico Secretary of State's website. Block level demographic data is from the Census API.

## Fields
NAME10: Name of precinct
Prec_num: Precinct number
County: Precinct county
AG18D: Number of votes for the 2018 Democratic Attorney General candidate
AG18R: Number of votes for the 2018 Republican Attorney General candidate
AG18L: Number of votes for the 2018 Libertarian Attorney General candidate
SOS18D: Number of votes for the 2018 Democratic Secretary of State candidate
SOS18R: Number of votes for the 2018 Republican Secretary of State candidate
SOS18L: Number of votes for the 2018 Libertarian Secretary of State candidate
SEN18D: Number of votes for the 2018 Democratic Senate candidate
SEN18R: Number of votes for the 2018 Republican Senate candidate
SEN18L: Number of votes for the 2018 Libertarian Senate candidate
GOV18D: Number of votes for the 2018 Democratic Governor candidate
GOV18R: Number of votes for the 2018 Republican Governor candidate
PRES16D: Number of votes for the 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate
PRES16R: Number of votes for the 2016 Republican Presidential candidate
PRES16L: Number of votes for the 2016 Libertarian Presidential candidate
SOS16D: Number of votes for the 2016 Democratic Secretary of State candidate
SOS16R: Number of votes for the 2016 Republican Secretary of State candidate
CDDIST: 2011 enacted US congressional district ID
HDIST: 2011 enacted State House district ID
SDIST: 2011 enacted State Senate district ID
Area: Area of precinct in square meters
Perimeter: Perimeter of precinct in meters
TOTPOP: Total population
NH_WHITE: White, non-hispanic, population
NH_BLACK: Black, non-hispanic, population
NH_AMIN: American Indian and Alaska Native, non-hispanic, population
NH_ASIAN: Asian, non-hispanic, population
NH_NHPI: Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, non-hispanic, population
NH_OTHER: Other race, non-hispanic, population
HISP: Hispanic population
H_WHITE: White, hispanic, population
H_BLACK: Black, hispanic, population
H_AMIN: American Indian and Alaska Native, hispanic, population
H_ASIAN: Asian, hispanic, population
H_NHPI: Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, hispanic, population
H_OTHER: Other race, hispanic, population
VAP: Total voting age population
HVAP: Hispanic voting age population
WVAP: White, non-hispanic, voting age population
BVAP: Black, non-hispanic, voting age population
AMINVAP: American Indian and Alaska Native, non-hispanic, voting age population
ASIANVAP: Asian, non-hispanic, voting age population
NHPIVAP: Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, non-hispanic, voting age population
OTHERVAP: Other race, non-hispanic, voting age population
2MOREVAP: Two or more races, non-hispanic, voting age population

Projection
This shapefile uses a WGS84/UTM zone 13N projection (EPSG: 32613).

## Processing Steps
Statewide election returns from 2016 and 2018 - from the New Mexico Secretary of State - were cleaned by MGGG staff in order to join it with the New Mexico precinct shapefile. Census block data was aggregated to the precinct level using MGGG's proration software.

## Additional Notes
Rating from MGGG: We give these shapefiles an A rating. All data was obtained from the state government and was processed by MGGG staff.