2018 Arkansas precinct and election shapefile. ## RDH Date retrieval 08/03/2021 ## Sources Election results from Arkansas Secretary of State (https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/elections/research/election-results) Precinct shapefile primarily from Jennifer Wheeler at the Arkansas GIS Office who provided an unreleased interim version of the statewide precinct shapefile with updated or corrected boundaries. Where noted below, the 2016 shapefile release from the Arkansas GIS Office was used to reverse changes not yet enacted for the 2018 election. ## 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, 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 G18GOVRHUT - Asa Hutchinson (Republican Party) G18GOVDHEN - Jared K. Henderson (Democratic Party) G18GOVLWES - Mark West (Libertarian Party) G18LTGRGRI - Tim Griffin (Republican Party) G18LTGDBLA - Anthony Bland (Democratic Party) G18LTGLGIL - Frank Gilbert (Libertarian Party) G18ATGRRUT - Leslie Rutledge (Republican Party) G18ATGDLEE - Mike Lee (Democratic Party) G18ATGLHIC - Kerry Hicks (Libertarian Party) G18SOSRTHU - John Thurston (Republican Party) G18SOSDINM - Susan Inman (Democratic Party) G18SOSLOLS - Christopher Olson (Libertarian Party) G18TRERMIL - Dennis Milligan (Republican Party) G18TRELEWA - Ashley Ewald (Libertarian Party) G18AUDRLEA - Andrea Lea (Republican Party) G18AUDLDIN - David E. Dinwiddie (Democratic Party) G18LNDRLAN - Tommy Land (Republican Party) G18LNDDWIL - Larry Williams (Democratic Party) G18LNDLCAM - T.J. Campbell (Libertarian Party) ## Processing Steps For Benton county the Secretary of State results combine the Precinct 41 votes with the Precinct 4 votes. These were corrected according to precinct reports received from the county. Johnson County switched to new vote centers for the November 2018 election. Due to a coding mismatch votes were then incorrectly assigned to precincts in the Secretary of State results, indicating some precincts had almost no votes and others had far too many. For the purpose of assigning votes as accurately as possible, the precincts are merged according to their assigned vote center with results by vote center received from the county. Votes that were reported countywide were then distributed based on the number of ballots cast by precinct according to the voter statistics report also received from the county. Countywide votes were distributed for Fulton, Jefferson, Johnson, Union. These were distributed by candidate to precincts based on their share of the precinct-level reported vote. Precinct mergers were made in the following counties to match county reporting units: Carroll, Chicot, Clark, Crittenden, Dallas, Faulkner, Hot Spring, Howard, Independence, Johnson, Mississippi, Monroe, Nevada, Phillips, Poinsett, St. Francis, Stone. The following additional revisions were made to match the 2018 precinct boundaries. Benton: Align Siloam Springs and Gravette with 2018 municipal boundaries Boone: Add precinct splits with municipal and district boundaries on county map Greene: Align Paragould wards with city PDF; Merge Wards 3/3A and 4/4C as the splits were not reported separately for the 2018 general election Izard: Split Sage in Melbourne 4 and Oxford in Brockwell with township shapefile Jefferson: Precincts 6, 35, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 46, 52, 63, 129, 402, 411 from 2016 shapefile Madison: County precincts outside Huntsville from 2016 shapefile Phillips: Add Helena-West Helena wards from city redistricting map; Precinct 4 was no longer in use for the 2018 general election, the single vote reported for Precinct 4 was from Precinct 6 St. Francis: Align Forrest City wards with city PDF and municipal code Stone: Split Ben 1/Ben 2 according to Secretary of State map