Chicago Judicial Elections
Data and Scripts to Acquire Data for Chicago Judicial Elections
- ./data/wards/*.csv : CSV Spreadsheets of Judicial Race Results at the Ward Level
- ./data/demographics/*.csv : CSV Spreadsheets of Racial, Ethnic, and Income Demographics at Ward Level for Each Election
- ./data/demographics/*.geojson : GeoJSON Files of Racial, Ethnic, and Income Demographics at Ward Level for Each Election. Good for mapping
The election results all come for the Chicago Board of Elections.
The Census data comes from the US Census's data API. We use the nearest available year for each election.
Census data sources
| year | Census Source |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 2019 ACS, 5 year |
| 2018 | 2018 ACS, 5 year |
| 2016 | 2016 ACS, 5 year |
| 2014 | 2014 ACS, 5 year |
| 2012 | 2012 ACS, 5 year |
| 2010 | 2010 ACS, 5 year |
| 2008 | 2010 ACS, 5 year |
| 2006 | 2010 ACS, 5 year |
| 2004 | 2000 SF1 |
| 2002 | 2000 SF1 |
| 2000 | 2000 SF1 |
See this project for the methodology of calculating the demographics for each ward.
- ogr2ogr
- python3
- make
- wget
> pip install -r requirements.txt> make all