Washington 2020 General Election Results, 2022 Senate General Election Results, 2022 Primary and General Voter Turnout, and 2020 VAP and 2021 CVAP by Race on 2020 Voting Tabulation Districts (VTDs) ## RDH Date Retrieval 06/28/23 ## Sources U.S. Census, RDH, VEST, L2, Washington Secretary of State ## Fields: Field Name Description VTD Unique 2020 VTD Identifier COUNTYFP20 County FIP Code G20PREDBID Joseph R. Biden (Democratic Party) G20PRERTRU Donald J. Trump (Republican Party) G20PRELJOR Jo Jorgensen (Libertarian Party) G20PREGHAW Howie Hawkins (Green Party) G20PRESLAR Gloria La Riva (Socialism and Liberation Party) G20PRESKEN Alyson Kennedy (Socialist Workers Party) G20PREOWRI Write-in Votes G20GOVDINS Jay Inslee (Democratic Party) G20GOVRCUL Loren Culp (Republican Party) G20GOVOWRI Write-in Votes G22SENDMUR Patty Murray (Democratic Party) G22SENRSMI Tiffany Smiley (Republican Party) G22SENOWRI Write-in Votes DEM_PRIM_VOTE22 Democratic Voters in 2022 Primary on August 2, 2022 as of the voterfile pulled on May 1, 2023 OTH_PRIM_VOTE22 Other Voters in 2022 Primary on August 2, 2022 as of the voterfile pulled on May 1, 2023 REP_PRIM_VOTE22 Republican Voters in 2022 Primary on August 2, 2022 as of the voterfile pulled on May 1, 2023 DEM_PRIM_REG22 Democratic Registered Voters (Modeled) on August 2, 2022 as of the voterfile pulled on May 1, 2023 NON_PRIM_REG22 Other Registered Voters (Modeled) on August 2, 2022 as of the voterfile pulled on May 1, 2023 REP_PRIM_REG22 Republican Registered Voters on (Modeled) on August 2, 2022 as of the voterfile pulled on VOTED_REG22 Total Number of 2022 General Election Voters on November 8, 2022 as of the voterfile pulled on May 1, 2023 TOTAL_POP 2020 PL Estimate for Total Population TOTAL_VAP 2020 PL Estimate for Total Voting Age Population (VAP) WHT_NHSP_VAP 2020 PL Estimate for Non-Hispanic White Alone VAP AIAN_NHSP_VAP 2020 PL Estimate for Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native Alone VAP ASN_NHSP_VAP 2020 PL Estimate for Non-Hispanic Asian Alone VAP NHOPI_NHSP_VAP 2020 PL Estimate for Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Alone VAP OTH_NHSP_VAP 2020 PL Estimate for Non-Hispanic Some Other Race Alone VAP OTH_HISP_VAP 2020 PL Estimate for Hispanic Some Other Race Alone VAP HISP_VAP 2020 PL Estimate for Hispanic VAP ANY_PART_BLK_NHSP_VAP 2020 PL Estimate for Non-Hispanic Black or African American Alone or In Combination VAP ANY_PART_BLK_VAP 2020 PL Estimate for Black or African American Alone or In Combination VAP CVAP_TOT21 2021 Total Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) Estimate CVAP_WHT21 2021 CVAP Estimate for White Alone CVAP_BLK21 2021 CVAP Estimate for Black or African American Alone or In Combination CVAP_AIA21 2021 CVAP Estimate for American Indian or Alaska Native Alone or In Combination CVAP_ASN21 2021 CVAP Estimate for Asian Alone or In Combination CVAP_NHP21 2021 CVAP Estimate for Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Alone CVAP_2OM21 2021 CVAP Estimate for Remainder of Two or More Race Responses CVAP_HSP21 2021 CVAP Estimate for Hispanic or Latino ## Processing Steps Voter file data was provided by L2. Voter file data is retrieved at the individual level and aggregated to 2020 VTDs using a spatial join. Not all individuals are able to be aggregated as they do not all contain a latitude, longitude coordinate or contain inaccurate coordinates (i.e. not geocoded). Party registration data is modeled by L2 based entirely on academic modeling. Because voters can vote for candidates in any party, the primary voter turnout by party is based on the modeled registration (only 4 individuals appear to be an exception to this). Voter file data on 2020 VTDs is then grouped by VTD assignment and joined with the VTD file. The VTD file containing 2020 demographic data is from the Census PL 94-171 release. We used the "Alone" values where indicated above in the Fields section (a single variable in the PL data) and summed all respective columns including that race/ethnicity for those that are listed as "any part". 2020 election results and precinct boundaries are provided by the [Voting Election and Science Team](https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=5007851&version=40.0). 2022 Senate election results were retrieved from the Washington Secretary of State [here](https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/research/2022-general-election.aspx) and joined to the 2022 shapefile also retrieved from the SOS [here](https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/research/Precinct-Shapefiles.aspx). These data were disaggregated using a modified Voting Age Population (VAP) variable where the adult incarcerated population is removed to calculate data at the 2020 block level. The results differ by a total of 4 for Murray and match the official totals exactly for other candidates. Other 2020 block level data include CVAP and 2020 election results. 2021 CVAP data is provided by the Census at the block group level and the RDH has disaggregated this data to the block level using a racially-sensitive disaggregation to maintain racial distribution inside the block group. 2020 election results on precinct boundaries are originally provided by the [Voting Election and Science Team](https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=5007851&version=40.0) and disaggregated by the RDH to the block level using a modified VAP variable. All 2020 block level data (2022 Senate, 2020 VAP, 2021 CVAP) was joined together on the GEOID20 field and assigned a "best fit" precinct using [maup](https://github.com/mggg/maup). These data were then grouped and summed by this assignment to then have all data (2020 election results, 2020 voter file, 2022 Senate results, 2020 VAP, and 2021 CVAP) on 2020 VTD shapes. The data was checked for accuracy and exported as a CSV and SHP. Please note that the 2021 CVAP data for CVAP_ASN21 and CVAP_AIA21 represent alone or in combination (Asian Alone + Asian and White, and Native American Alone + Native American and Black + Native American and White), which is slightly different than the VAP values, as those are represented as just "Alone". Moreover, the CVAP_BLK21 represents a sum of all available CVAP data (Black Alone + Black and White + Black and Native American) but the VAP data is more encompassing, including more fields as the PL data provides more racial categories. It is also to be noted that all CVAP data is Non-Hispanic, while in VAP it varies depending on the field (as noted in the description and column name). Visit the RDH GitHub and the processing script for this code [here](https://github.com/nonpartisan-redistricting-datahub/Processing-Requests) Please direct questions related to processing this dataset to info@redistrictingdatahub.org.