2018 Massachusetts precinct and election shapefile. ## RDH Date retrieval 08/31/2021 ## Sources Election results from Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth (https://electionstats.state.ma.us/) Precinct shapefile from MassGIS Bureau of Geographic Information (https://docs.digital.mass.gov/dataset/massgis-data-wards-and-precincts) ## 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 G18USSDWAR - Elizabeth A. Warren (Democratic Party) G18USSRDIE - Geoff Diehl (Republican Party) G18USSUAYY - Shiva Ayyadurai (Unenrolled) G18USSOWRI - Write-in Votes G18GOVRBAK - Charles D. Baker (Republican Party) G18GOVDGON - Jay M. Gonzalez (Democratic Party) G18GOVOWRI - Write-in Votes G18ATGDHEA - Maura Healey (Democratic Party) G18ATGRMCM - James R. McMahon, III (Republican Party) G18ATGOWRI - Write-in Votes G18SOCDGAL - William Francis Galvin (Democratic Party) G18SOCRAMO - Anthony M. Amore (Republican Party) G18SOCGSAN - Juan G. Sanchez, Jr (Green-Rainbow Party) G18SOCOWRI - Write-in Votes G18TREDGOL - Deborah B. Goldberg (Democratic Party) G18TRERORR - Keiko M. Orrall (Republican Party) G18TREGGUE - Jamie M. Guerin (Green-Rainbow Party) G18TREOWRI - Write-in Votes G18AUDDBUM - Suzanne M. Bump (Democratic Party) G18AUDRBRA - Helen Brady (Republican Party) G18AUDLFIS - Daniel Fishman (Libertarian Party) G18AUDGSTA - Edward J. Stamas (Green-Rainbow Party) G18AUDOWRI - Write-in Votes ## Processing Steps A number of municipal boundaries were aligned with the more current MassGIS Town Survey shapefile. The following precincts were split by congressional district to match reporting units: Andover 7; Bellingham 4; Cambridge 3-2; Fall River 5B,6C; Palmer 1; Raynham 1,2; Sudbury 1; Winchendon 1. Andover 9A was merged with Andover 1 by an act of the MA legislature prior to the 2018 election. The following precinct divisions are authorized and defined for voting purposes but not for redistricting purposes by specific acts of the MA legislature and were split accordingly: Chicopee 6A,6B; Dracut 6; Hingham 5; Newburyport 1; Peabody 4-3; Quincy 2-3; Revere 2-3,5-1,5-2. Warren A and Warren B precincts were split based on polling place assignments in the Warren parcel shapefile.