2020 General Election Precinct Results

[dwillis]

Using Tabula, parse precinct-level results for the following counties. Original sources are in the sources-nj repository.

The goal is to create a single CSV file for each county, with the following headers:

county, precinct, office, district, party, candidate, votes

If the county also breaks out votes by method, add columns for those, such as:

mail, provisional, early_voting, election_day

For the following offices: President, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, State House (there were two special elections for this office, so most counties will not have any state house races). You can use the Essex County file as an example of how things should look. You do not need to include municipal totals.

The file names will be: 20201103__nj__general__{county}__precinct.csv

• Atlantic
• Bergen
• Burlington
• Camden
• Cape May
• Cumberland
• Essex
• Gloucester
• Hudson
• Hunterdon
• Mercer
• Middlesex
• Monmouth
• Morris
• Ocean
• Passaic
• Salem
• Somerset
• Sussex
• Union
• Warren

[giosce]

Hi, sorry don't see a nicer way to introduce myself.
I'm doing a similar work, loading all NJ election results data, so I wonder if we can find ways to leverage each other work.
Looking at some of the pdf you think/suggest to parse, I'm not sure when you say "at precinct" level.
I dealt a lot with precinct (together sometimes with wards, the subdivisions within a town) for a couple of years (focusing on my districts, LD21 and CD07) I decided it was not sustainable. So now I switched to municipal level, I'm still finishing to load and validate the data.

[dwillis]

@giosce Hi, and thanks for introducing yourself! I agree that precinct-level stuff is difficult to do, but that's our mission. We also would love to have municipal and county-level results (and do for several NJ elections), so if you'd be willing to share any that you have we'd love to have them. You can email us at [email protected] if that's easier.