Texas voting tabulation district shapefile with 2012, 2014, and 2016 election results. Note that Texas refers to their precincts that they change throughout the decade as VTDs. 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
Election data was downloaded from the Texas Legislative Council’s Texas Redistricting website. In addition to the voting tabulation district shapefile and election data CSV files, shapefiles for state senate districts (PlanS172) and state house districts (PlanH407) were also downloaded. A 115th U.S. Congressional district shapefile was obtained from the Census. All demographic information was compiled by the Texas Legislative Council using 2010 Census data.

## Fields
CNTYVTD: VTD unique identifier
VTD: VTD name
WHITE: 2010 White population
OTHER: 2010 Other race population
HISPANIC: 2010 Hispanic population
TOTPOP: 2010 Total population
VAP: 2010 Total voting age population
BLACK: 2010 Black population
BLKHISP: 2010 Black hispanic population
WVAP: 2010 White voting age population
HISPVAP: 2010 Hispanic voting age population
BHVAP: 2010 Black hispanic voting age population
BVAP: 2010 Black voting age population
OTHVAP: 2010 Other race voting age population
COUNTY: County name
FIPS: County FIPS code
PRES12R: Number of votes for 2012 Republican presidential candidate
PRES12D: Number of votes for 2012 Democratic presidential candidate
SEN12R: Number of votes for 2012 Republican senate candidate
SEN12D: Number of votes for 2012 Democratic senate candidate
TOTVR12: Number of registered voters in 2012 general election
TOTTO12: Number of ballots cast in 2012 general election
SEN14R: Number of votes for 2014 Republican senate candidate
SEN14D: Number of votes for 2014 Democratic senate candidate
GOV14R: Number of votes for 2014 Republican gubernatorial candidate
GOV14D: Number of votes for 2014 Democratic gubernatorial candidate
TOTVR14: Number of registered voters in 2014 general election
TOTTO14: Number of ballots cast in 2014 general election
PRES16D: Number of votes for 2016 Democratic presidential candidate 
PRES16R: Number of votes for 2016 Republican presidential candidate
TOTVR16: Number of registered voters in 2016 general election
TOTTO16: Number of ballots cast in 2016 general election
USCD: U.S. Congressional District ID
SEND: Texas State Senate District ID
HD: Texas State House District ID
AREA: Area of vtd in square kilometers
PERIM: Perimeter of vtd in kilometers

Projection
This shapefile uses a NAD83/Texas State Mapping System projection (EPSG: 3081).
## Processing Steps
The shapefile topology was checked and minor corrections made using the check_shapefile_connectivity.py script in MGGG's Preprocessing Github repository. Roundoff was used to assign voting tabulation districts with U.S. congressional, state senate, and state house districts.

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