State and Presidential Elections - November 6, 2012

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Cambridge Election Results from the November 6, 2012 State and Presidential Election.

Tags: government and finance, elections

This dataset has the following 7 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeDescriptionSample Values
Ward Precinct Codeward_precinct_codenumberUsed to sort the results by Ward and Precinct
Ward Precinctward_precincttext
Race Coderace_codenumberUsed to sort the results by race in the order they were on the ballot
RaceracetextRace or office (i.e., president, senator in congress, etc). Includes district designation where applicable
Candidate Codecandidate_codenumberUsed to sort the results by candidate in the order they were on the ballot
CandidatecandidatetextThe name of the candidate, write-in, blank or total. A name with WI at the beginning indicates a write-in candidate who received at least 5 votes citywide and was therefore reported in the results. All other write-ins are combined as “write-in.”
CountcountnumberThis is the number of votes received by each candidate