Mississippi 2022 Primary Precinct-Level Election Results

## RDH Date Retrieval
09/14/23

## Sources
Democratic Primary results from Mississippi Secretary of State [(here)](https://www.sos.ms.gov/elections-voting/2022-democratic-primary)
Republican Primary results from Mississippi Secretary of State [(here)](https://www.sos.ms.gov/elections-voting/2022-republican-primary)

## Notes on Field Names (adapted from VEST):
Columns reporting votes generally follow the pattern:
One example is:
G16PRERTRU
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.

*To fit within the GIS 10 character limit for field names, the naming convention is slightly different for the State Legislature and US House of Representatives. All fields are listed below with definitions.

Office Codes Used:
CON## - U.S. Congress

Party Codes Used:
D - Democratic
R - Republican

## Fields:
Field Name Description                                                                  
UNIQUE_ID  Unique ID for each precinct                                                  
COUNTYFP   County FIP identifier                                                        
COUNTY     County Name                                                                  
PRECINCT   Precinct Name                                                                
PCON01DAVE US House Of Rep 01-1st Congressional District, Hunter Avery (Democrat)       
PCON01DBLA US House Of Rep 01-1st Congressional District, Dianne Black (Democrat)       
PCON01RKEL US House Of Rep 01-1st Congressional District, Trent Kelly (Republican)      
PCON01RSTR US House Of Rep 01-1st Congressional District, Mark D. Strauss (Republican)  
PCON02DKER US House Of Rep 02-2nd Congressional District, Jerry Kerner (Democrat)       
PCON02DTHO US House Of Rep 02-2nd Congressional District, Bennie G. Thompson (Democrat) 
PCON02RCAR US House Of Rep 02-2nd Congressional District, Michael Carson (Republican)   
PCON02RELL US House Of Rep 02-2nd Congressional District, Ronald Eller (Republican)     
PCON02RFLO US House Of Rep 02-2nd Congressional District, Brian Flowers (Republican)    
PCON02RJOH US House Of Rep 02-2nd Congressional District, Stanford Johnson (Republican) 
PCON03RCAS US House Of Rep 03-3rd Congressional District, Michael Cassidy (Republican)  
PCON03RGRI US House Of Rep 03-3rd Congressional District, Thomas B. Griffin (Republican)
PCON03RGUE US House Of Rep 03-3rd Congressional District, Michael Guest (Republican)    
PCON04DDUP US House Of Rep 04-4th Congressional District, Johnny L. DuPree (Democrat)   
PCON04DSEL US House Of Rep 04-4th Congressional District, David Sellers (Democrat)      
PCON04RBOY US House Of Rep 04-4th Congressional District, Carl Boyanton (Republican)    
PCON04RBRO US House Of Rep 04-4th Congressional District, Raymond N. Brooks (Republican)
PCON04REZE US House Of Rep 04-4th Congressional District, Mike Ezell (Republican)       
PCON04RPAL US House Of Rep 04-4th Congressional District, Steven M. Palazzo (Republican)
PCON04RPET US House Of Rep 04-4th Congressional District, Kidron Peterson (Republican)  
PCON04RWAG US House Of Rep 04-4th Congressional District, Clay Wagner (Republican)      
PCON04RWIG US House Of Rep 04-4th Congressional District, Brice Wiggins (Republican)    

## Processing Steps
Election results were retrieved as PDFs by county from the [Mississippi Secretary of State](https://www.sos.ms.gov/elections-voting/). 
PDFs were converted to editable text using Adobe Acrobat Pro's "Scan & OCR" feature. 
[Tabula](https://tabula.technology/) was then used to extract contest name, candidate names, and vote counts from PDFs. 
Due to formatting, precinct names needed to entered manually. To ensure accuracy, names were verified between the Republican and Democtactic primaries as well as the general election results.
Additional cleaning and verification was performed in Python. All precinct-level returns sum to candidate totals for each county as well as for the state.

Visit the RDH GitHub and the processing script for this code [here](https://github.com/nonpartisan-redistricting-datahub/pber_collection).

Please direct questions related to processing this dataset to info@redistrictingdatahub.org.