Parse 2010 General Election Results

[dwillis]

Using the files found on this page and Tabula or xPDF, produce both county and precinct files for the Governor, U.S. House and state legislative races. Combine the race-specific files into single files (one for county-level, one for precinct-level).

Header row for the output CSV is:

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

precinct is blank for county-level files.

• 20101102__tn__general.csv (county) (example file)
• 20101102__tn__general__precinct.csv (precinct)

Here's a video on how we use Tabula.

[arnold-jr]

I've forked this repo and am bringing in some parsing tools for reading election data from the xlsx spreadsheets on the linked page.

[dwillis]

Excellent, thanks @arnold-jr!