data-raw/County Presidential Returns 2000-2016.md

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Codebook for 2000-2016 County Presidential Data

The data file countypres_2000-2016 contains county-level returns for presidential elections from 2000 to 2016. The data source is official state election data records.

Note: County results in Alaska for 2004 are based on official Alaska data, but it is clear the district returns significantly overstate the number of votes cast.

Variables

The variables are listed as they appear in the data file.

year

• Description: election year

state

• Description: state name

state_po

• Description: U.S. postal code state abbreviation

county

• Description: county name

FIPS

• Description: county FIPS code

office

• Description: President

candidate

• Description: name of the candidate

party

• Description: party of the candidate

candidatevotes

• Description: votes received by this candidate for this particular party

totalvotes

• Description: total number of votes cast in this county-year

version

• Description: date when dataset was finalized

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