2022 Electoral Districts
This dataset provides US House of Representatives district level election results from the 2022 general election for the 108th Congress held on 8 November 2023.
Candidate data is sourced from state secretary of state electoral results websites documented in the data.
Individual state 118th Congressional District shapefiles are 2023 TIGER/Line shapefiles current as of 1 January 2023 and downloaded on 3 March 2023: https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/2023/geo/tiger-line-file.html.
Attributes
- District: Congressional district in the form ss-nn where ss is the USPS state abbreviation and nn is the one- or two-digit district number. The district number is AL for at-large candidates and is omitted for non-voting delegates.
- ST: USPS two-letter state abbreviations
- Party_2022: Party of the winning candidate (Democratic or Republican)
- Representative_2022: Name of the winning candidate
- Name_Dem_2022: Name of the Democratic candidate
- Votes_Dem_2022: Certified votes for the Democratic candidate. This value is blank if the party did not field a candidate.
- Percent_Dem_2022: Percent of total votes for the Democratic candidate
- Name_Rep_2022: Name of the Republican candidate
- Votes_Rep_2022: Certified votes for the Republican candidate. This value is blank if the party did not field a candidate.
- Percent_Rep_2022: Percent of total votes for the Republican candidate
- Name_Lib_2022: Name of the Libertarian candidate
- Votes_Lib_2022: Certified votes for the Libertarian candidate. This value is blank if the party did not field a candidate.
- Percent_Lib_2022: Percent of total votes for the Libertarian candidate
- Votes_Other_2022: Number of votes for candidates other than the three parties listed above. This includes third parties, write-in candidates, and major party candidates in Louisiana's jungle primary system that are below the party member with the greatest number of votes. This value is blank if there were no additional candidates or if the state does not include non-major-party votes in their canvass results.
- Percent_Other_2022: Percent of total votes represented by Votes_Other_2022
- Votes_Total: Total number of votes (three listed parties plus other). Does not include overvotes, blank, or rejected votes
- Source: URL of the secretary of state website used as the source for the data
- Votes_Sq_Mile: Number of voters per district square mile that can be used as a proxy for population density
- Sq_Miles_Land: Square miles of district land area from the TIGER data
- Sq_Miles_Water: Square miles of district water area from the TIGER data
- Latitude: Latitude (centroid?) from the TIGER data
- Longitude: Longitude (centroid?) from the TIGER data