jalbertbowden / 2016_nj_elections_results

Repo for the 2016 NJ Presidential Election Results gathered by the staff of NJ.com/The Star-Ledger

2016 NJ Presidential Elections Results

On November 9, 2016, 17 NJAM reporters went to every county election board in New Jersey and got the unofficial presidential election results for every municipality in the state.

Using this data, the NJAM data team made several maps showing town-by-town map results and analysis for NJ.com and The Star-Ledger:

• See how your town voted in the 2016 presidential election
• The 53 N.J. towns that flipped from Obama to Trump
• The N.J. towns with the most Gary Johnson and Jill Stein votes
• Trump's election ripped this N.J. county in half

You can use this data for your own analysis. Contact me or Erin Petenko if you have any questions. Also, let us know what interesting trends you end up finding and what you end up making.

Note: These results were gathered the day after the election, and in many counties, provisional and mail-in ballots had still not been gathered. It's important to remember that these results could change from when the official results are posted in a couple of months.

The municipality codes, legislative and congressional district designations are from the Rutgers Data Book.

##Data Dictionary for Election CSV data

Click here to dive directly into the csv.

COLUMNS	DEFINITION
county	The county
municipality	The municipality
muni_code	The municipality code used to connect the csv to the topojson
ld	The legislative district the town belongs to
cd	The congressional district the town belongs to
census_code	A Census number that serves as a key to join Census data
prez_dem	Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate
prez_rep	Donald Trump, the Republican candidate
johnson	Gary Johnson, the Liberterian candidate
stein	Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate
castle	Darrell Castle, the Constitution Party candidate
de_la_fuente	Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, the Reform Party candidate
kennedy	Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party candidate
la_riva	Gloria La Riva, the Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate
moorehead	Monica Moorehead, the Workers World Party candidate
write-in	Write-in ballots
total_votes	Total votes cast in that town, as given by the county. If the county does not provide a total number, the tally is calculated by adding all votes for candidate and write-in ballots cast.
winner	The winning candidate in that candidate. "Tie", if it's a tie. "None", if no numbers were provided for that city.
first_place	The number of votes received by the winning candidate
second_place	The number of votes received by the second place candidate
margin_victory	The margin of victory between the first and second place candidate
prez_dem_per	The percentage of the vote received by the Democratic candidate
prez_rep_per	The percentage of the vote received by the Republican candidate
johnson_per	The percentage of the vote received by the Liberterian candidate, Gary Johnson
stein_per	The percentage of the vote received by the Green Party candidate, Jill Stein
others_total	Total votes received by candidates that were not the Democratic or Republican candidate, includes Gary Johnson, Jill Stein and all other third-party candidates
others_per	Total percent of votes received by candidates that were not the Democratic or Republican candidate, includes Gary Johnson, Jill Stein and all other third-party candidates