tonmcg / US_County_Level_Election_Results_08-20

United States General Election Presidential Results by County from 2008 to 2016

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Data Issues in 2008

seesharp15 opened this issue · comments

The following 5 counties have inconsistent data for 2008 (ref issue #10 for detailed info on Indiana). (NOTE: this integrity check was applied to all other counties for 2008-2016; these 5 the only counties with inconsistencies).

ReportedTotal = TOTAL_20XX value report in .csv's
CalculatedTotal = sum of gop+dem+oth for each year
Diff = calculatedtotal - reportedtotal

StateName,CountyName,ElectionYear,ReportedTotal,CalculatedTotal,Diff
Indiana,LaPorte County,2008,208757,46919,-161838
Missouri,Laclede County,2008,2024,16323,14299
Missouri,Platte County,2008,46480,46516,36
Ohio,Ottawa County,2008,23069,23084,15
Wisconsin,Sauk County,2008,30626,30176,-450

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Looks like this was also reported in issue #6. Sorry for the dupes. Pls approve PR

Same as issue #6.