Office of the Secretary of State
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Last update: 10-15-2004 by Ted Lautzenheiser, Director of Information Technology
Ted.Lautzenheiser@state.mn.us

The files on this web and ftp sites contain ASCII text, separated by semicolons. 
Note that the candidate codes, races, registered voter information, etc are subject to
change up until election day.

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The Election Result files contain the following data:

	State
	County ID
	Precinct Number (when applicable)
	Office ID
	Office Name
	District  (when applicable)
	Candidate ID
	Candidate Name  (do not have it divided by First/Last/Suffix,  All one field)
	Suffix (not used)
	Incumbent Code (not used)
	Party ID
	Precincts reporting
	Total number of Precincts in State/County/Race (Whichever is applicable)
	Votes for Candidate
	Percentage of votes for Candidate by Office
	Total number of Votes for Office

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The Federal, State and County Candidate file (CandTbl.txt) contains the following data:

	Candidate ID
	Candidate Name
	Office ID (first four characters of Candidate ID)
	Office Title
	County ID (88 = statewide race or multi-county race)
	Party ID
	Party Abbreviation

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The Local Candidate file (LocalCandTbl.txt) contains the following data:

	Candidate ID
	Candidate Name
	Office ID (first four characters of Candidate ID)
	Office Title
	County ID (88 = statewide race or multi-county race)
	MCD code (using FIPS statewide unique codes, not county MCDs)
	School District

Note: Party is omitted since all local candidates are non-partisan.

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The County table (CntyTbl.txt) contains:

	County ID
	County Name
	Number of precincts

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The Precinct table contains:
	County ID
	Precinct ID
	Precinct Name
	Congressional District
	Legislative District
	County Commissioner District
	Judicial District
	Soil and Water District
	MCD code (using FIPS statewide unique codes, not county MCDs)

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The Party table (PartyTbl.txt) contains:

	Party Abbreviation
	Party Name
	Party ID