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District Codes for the Electoral Data Variables

This section provides district codes used in the voting variables for State Senate districts (SD) and and for State House/Assembly/Legislative districts (LD). The names of these districts differ by state and legislative house, and we provide the names here.

The columns of the individual table for each state that follows have these labels, with corresponding meanings:

ST: State postal code abbreviation.
CH: Chamber, Y for upper chamber, X for lower chamber.
ED-S: Election district number and suffix. Each number and suffix uniquely identifies either an upper chamber or lower chamber district depending on the chamber [CH] code.
YR1: Beginning year for which codes are applicable.
YR2: Ending year for which codes are applicable.
SEATS: Number of seats at stake in a district.
LEN: Length of term.
NAME: Local name assigned to district.

Here are the individual state tables:

AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY

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