2016 Wisconsin precinct and election results shapefile. ## RDH Date retrieval 03/25/2021 ## Sources Election results and precinct shapefile from Wisconsin State Legislature Open Data Portal (https://data-ltsb.opendata.arcgis.com/) ## Fields metadata Vote Column Label Format ------------------------ Columns reporting votes follow a standard label pattern. One example is: G16PREDCli The first character is G for a general election, P for a primary, C for a caucus, R for a runoff, S for a special. 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 AGR - Commissioner of Agriculture ATG - Attorney General AUD - Auditor COM - Comptroller COU - City Council Member 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 - Commissioner of Insurance LAB - Commissioner of Labor LTG - Lieutenant Governor LND - Commissioner of Public Lands PRE - President PSC - Public Service Commissioner PUC - Public Utilities Commissioner RGT - State University Regent RRC - Railroad Commissioner SAC - State Court of Appeals SOS - Secretary of State SOV - Senate of Virginia, accompanied by a SOV_DIST column indicating district number SPI - Superintendent of Public Instruction SSC - State Supreme Court TRE - Treasurer 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 G16PRERTru - Donald J. Trump (Republican Party) G16PREDCli - Hillary Clinton (Democratic Party) G16PRECCas - Darrell L. Castle (Constitution Party) G16PRELJoh - Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party) G16PREGSte - Jill Stein (Green Party) G16PREOth - Write-in Votes G16USSRJoh - Ron Johnson (Republican Party) G16USSDFei - Russ Feingold (Democratic Party) G16USSLAnd - Phillip N. Anderson (Libertarian Party) G16USSOth - Write-in Votes ## Processing Steps The shapefile used for the 2016 election results was the 2017 wards shapefile. The 2017 wards shapefile featured multiple changes and corrections to the ward boundaries what were already in effect for the November 2016 general election but were not in the January 2016 wards shapefile. Several thousand votes were reported for the town of Menasha, which had almost entirely been incorporated into the village of Fox Crossing. The ward numbers in the Menasha results matched exactly the wards in Fox Crossing that didn't report any results, so the Menasha results were applied to Fox Crossing. The following wards had been added due to annexations subsequent to the 2016 general election. They were merged back into the 2016 wards along with any associated election results. Brown: Wrightstown 5 Clark: Abbotsford 7 Dane: DeForest 18, Sun Prairie 22 Eau Claire: Eau Claire 68 Fond du Lac: Fond du Lac 28 Green Lake: Green Lake 4 Kenosha: Kenosha 94 La Crosse: Holmen 12 Manitowoc: Manitowoc 29 Marathon: Wausau 48 Monroe: Tomah 21 Outagamie: Combined Locks 6, Kaukauna 13 Washington: Slinger 9 Waukesha: Sussex 10 Waupaca: Clintonville 9, 10 Winnebago: Menasha 39-42, Neenah 26 These additional changes were made to reflect the 2016 ward-by-ward results. Grant: Split Platteville 8/9 Jefferson: Renumber Watertown 3 to Watertown 19 La Crosse: Split Holland 1 from Holmen 2 Winnebago: Relabel Fox Crossing 8-13 as Menasha 8-13 Note that the election results for Holland 1-6 and Holmen 1-11 in La Crosse County were reapportioned accordingly using the same whole population methodology as the WI Legislative Technology Services Bureau.