Rhode Island precinct shapefile with 2016 and 2018 election results. 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 precinct, congressional, state house, and state senate district shapefiles come from the Rhode Island Department of State through the Rhode Island GIS Data Distribution System. 2010 Decennial Census demographic data were downloaded from the Census API. The 2010 census block shapefile for Rhode Island was downloaded from the US Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Election data were downloaded from the Rhode Island Board of Elections. ## Fields NAME: Precinct Name Shape__Are: Precinct area in square degree Shape__Len: Precinct perimeter in degree JOINID: Precinct ID PRENAME: Precinct name REGVOT16: Number of registered voters for 2016 general election TOTVOT16: Number of ballots cast in 2016 general election PRES16D: Number of votes for 2016 Democratic presidential candidate PRES16R: Number of votes for 2016 Republican presidential candidate REGVOT18: Number of registered voters for 2018 general election TOTVOT18: Number of ballots cast in 2018 general election GOV18D: Number of votes for 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate GOV18R: Number of votes for 2018 Republican gubernatorial candidate SEN18D: Number of votes for 2018 Democratic senate candidate SEN18R: Number of votes for 2018 Republican senate candidate 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 NH_2MORE: Two or more races, non-hispanic, population HISP: 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 HDIST: State house district ID SENDIST: State senate district ID CD: Congressional district ID ## Processing Steps Election data from the RI Board of Elections were cleaned by MGGG staff to join it to the precinct shapefile. Demographic data were aggregated from the block level to precincts using MGGG’s proration software. Congressional, house, and senate district IDs were assigned to precincts also using this package. ## Additional Notes Rating from MGGG: We give this shapefile an A rating. All data was obtained through the state government and was processed by MGGG staff.