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2024 Primary & General Elections VTDs Voting Tabulation Districts (VTDs), the census geographic equivalent of county election precincts, are created for the purpose of relating 2020 Census population data to election precinct data. VTDs can differ from actual election precincts because precincts do not always follow census geography. The VTDs currently included in the redistricting database closely correspond to the precincts in effect for the 2024 primary and general elections. On the occasion that a precinct is in two noncontiguous pieces, it is a suffixed VTD in the database. For example, if precinct 0001 had two non-contiguous areas, the corresponding VTD would be VTD 0001A and VTD 0001B. If an election precinct does not match any census geography, it is consolidated with an adjacent precinct and given that precinct's corresponding VTD number. There are 9,712 VTDs in the 2024 primary & general elections VTDs shapefile. GIS users can join the council's redistricting election datasets to the 2024 primary & general elections VTDs shapefile in this directory. Use the common field name 'VTDKEY' to join the data. GIS users can join 2020 Census population data (VTDs_24PG_Pop.zip) to the 2024 primary & general elections VTDs shapefile in this directory. Use the common field name 'VTDKEY' to join the data. The VTDs shapefile (.shp) is in a compressed file (.zip) format: VTDs_24PG.zip - 2024 Primary & General Elections VTDs CNTY (num) - County FIPS Census code COLOR (num) - Color assignment for symbology VTD (txt) - VTD name (2024 general election) CNTYKEY (num) - Unique code used to join to geographic data VTDKEY (num) - Unique code used to join to geographic data CNTYVTD (txt) - Unique code used to join geographic data (CNTYKEY + VTD) The population data file contains the 2020 Census population by VTD as comma-separated values: VTDs_24PG_Pop.zip (.txt file in compressed format) - 2024 primary & general elections VTD, 2020 Census population CountyFIPS (txt) - County FIPS Census Code County (txt) - County name CNTY (num) - County FIPS Census Code VTD (txt) - VTD name (2024 general election) CNTYVTD (txt) - Unique code used to join geographic data (CNTY + VTD) VTDKEY (num) - Unique code used to join to geographic data total (num) - Total Population