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« on: March 24, 2010, 08:07:52 PM »

Hi,
With a serendipitous find, here is the 2008 General Election by Precinct (preliminary) for North Carolina.



(open in a new window for full size).

Note, the following counties need updated shape files:

Durham (small adjustments needed)
Granville (small adjustment needed)
Chatham (online file is from 2002)
Lee (major update needed)
Harnett (lots of consolidation)
Cumberland (real mess - consolidation of data to precincts G2, G3, etc. not helping).
Rockingham (lots of consolidation)
Caswell (minor adjustment)
Caldwell (significant changes)
Wilkes (small changes)
Rutherford (significant consolidation)
Polk (minor cosolidation)
Buncombe (another messy one)
Transylvania (too much consolidation in statewide shapefile)
Jackson (funny tabulation in this county)
Swain (too much consolidation in statwide shapefile)
Cherokee

(any help tracking these down and I'll update the map - we can possibly get a complete one here!).
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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2010, 08:11:04 PM »
« Edited: March 24, 2010, 08:15:14 PM by Dave Leip »

North Carolina did a very nice tally this year - allocating most of the early, absentee, provisional, transfer, etc. ballots to their home precincts instead of leaving them aggregated in one county-wide "precinct".  This has allowed for much more accurate mapping of the results.  Also, since NC has relatively large populations within each precinct, the statewide map is not like looking at all boundaries.

The shapefile statewide was actually very hard to find - and I actually stumbled across it while collecting a few individual counties.  Imagine my surprise (I think it was Franklin), when I downloaded voting precincts and ended up with the entire state!  - and the file matches the data and the NC Elections web site maps pretty well.  Some tweaks are required, some perhaps I'll just fill in by hand, but I'm hoping we can accumulate more accurate shapefiles for the handful of counties above.
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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2010, 03:24:24 PM »

Excellent! Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2010, 06:14:14 PM »

Awesome!
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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2010, 03:52:58 PM »

Thank you Dave? Could you please do Virginia next?
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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2010, 11:07:07 PM »

Thanks Dave!
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« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2010, 07:58:43 PM »

Thank you Dave? Could you please do Virginia next?

I've completed the data collection for VA (a bit arcane data mining).  Anyone locate a shape file for voting precincts?  I haven't found one thus far.

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« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2010, 06:25:14 PM »

Somewhere I had found a file from 2008 with almost all the absentees, early votes and whatever apportioned to the precinct. Huh  I used it when I counted up precincts won by Obama and McCain.
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