2016 Presidential Primary County by County Results

Field Name

Field Description

County Code

Unique ID# of each county provided by the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

County Name

Name of county candidate is running in

Office Code

Codes created to identify offices and district numbers. The code is 8 digits and can be broken down as XX-XXX-XX-X

OFFICE CODE:
The first two digits denote the OFFICE CODE.
01-President
02-Governor
03-Secretary of State of State of Michigan
04-Attorney General
05-US Senate
06-US Congress
07-State Senate
08-State Representative
09-Board of Education
10-UofM Regents
11-MSU Trustee
12-WSU Governors
13-Supreme Court
14-Court of Appeals
15-Circuit Court
16-District Court
17-Probate Court
18-Probate Court District
25-Presidential Primary by Congressional district
30-Lt. Governor
31-Vice President
00-Poll Book totals
90- State proposals

DISTRICT CODES: The next 3 digits denote the district number i.e. 00100 is the first district; 00200, etc.

The next 2 digits that denote divisions in the district court, i.e. 00101: First district, first division or 0020A; Second district division A. For Proposals (Office code 90) this is the ballot proposal number.

STATUS CODE: The last digit separates out offices when there is a need for additional uniqueness in the code. The code usually 0 unless there is a special election or there is a judicial slotting requiring a separate office in the data. The most common uses are listed below, but may vary.

0-Regular Term

1-Regular Term non-incumbent position (judicial only)

2, 3, 4–Partial Term incumbent position (judicial only)

5,6,7 - 4–Partial Term non-incumbent position (judicial only)

8 – Partial term

9 – Free form Description

Office Detail

Provides additional information for ballot proposals only.

Committee ID

Unique ID# within an election for each candidate provided by the Michigan Bureau of Elections. For state level candidates the number corresponds to the Candidate Committee filed under Michigan’s Campaign Finance Act. Federal candidates are provided a random negative number each election.

Candidate First Name

First name of the candidate running in the election as they requested it to appear on the ballot.

Candidate Last Name

Last name of the candidate running in the election.

Party Affiliation

Party affiliation of candidate. Judicial and candidate without party affiliation are designated with NPA = No Party Affiliation

County Total

Total votes provided by county. Results posted election night are unofficial and are subject to change.