Virginia 2025 Statewide Elections: Precinct GeoPackage

Election date: 4 November 2025
Dataset version date: 3 December 2025

File and Layer

• File: VA_precincts_2025_statewide_standardized.gpkg
• Layer: precincts_2025

Download

The GeoPackage is published as a release asset:

https://github.com/election-archivist/va-2025-precinct-results/releases/download/v1.0.0/VA_precincts_2025_statewide_standardized.gpkg

Overview

This GeoPackage combines Virginia's 2025 statewide election results
(Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General) with a cleaned and
standardized precinct geometry layer.

Each feature represents a regular voting precinct as of 2025 with
joined vote totals and percentages for the three statewide contests.

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Identity Fields

The following fields form the standard geographic identity schema for precincts and are intended for reuse across future states and years.

• state
  Two-letter postal code. For this dataset always "VA".

• county_name
  County or independent city name in title case, including “County”
  or “City” where applicable (for example Appomattox County,
  Richmond County, Richmond City).

• county_fips
  Five-character county FIPS code as text.
  Placeholder only in this version and left NULL.
  This can be filled from an external FIPS reference and reused
  for all elections.

• precinct_id
  Local numeric precinct identifier as used by the state in its
  reporting (for example 101, 502, 6). Stored as integer.

• precinct_code
  Zero-padded text version of the precinct ID, currently padded to
  four digits (for example "0101", "0502", "0006").

• precinct_name
  Short precinct name only, in uppercase, without the numeric prefix
  (for example CHINCOTEAGUE, CHAPEL, ETLAN).

• precinct_label
  Human-facing label in the form "NNN – NAME", combining the
  numeric ID (three digits) with the precinct name
  (for example 101 – CHINCOTEAGUE, 006 – ETLAN).
  Intended for direct use on maps.

• precinct_geoid
  Precinct-level identifier. When the source shapefile provided a
  GEOID, that value is preserved here. When it did not, a fallback
  placeholder of the form "51XXX####" is used and should not
  be treated as authoritative.

• precinct_uid
  Machine-friendly unique ID for joins and cross-files. Pattern:

  VA_[countyfips]_[precinct_code]

  In this version CountyFIPS from the source shapefile is used
  when available. When absent, a placeholder "XXX" is used.

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Election Result Fields

All election fields follow the naming grammar

VA_[OFFICE][YY]_[CANDLAST]_[PARTY]_[MEASURE]

and for totals:

VA_[OFFICE][YY]_TOTAL_[MEASURE]

Where:

• STATE is implicitly VA and included literally.
• OFFICE is one of:
  • GOV (Governor)
  • LG (Lieutenant Governor)
  • AG (Attorney General)
• YY is the last two digits of the election year: 25 for 2025.
• CANDLAST is the uppercased candidate surname with no spaces.
• PARTY is a single-letter party code:
  • D = Democratic
  • R = Republican
• MEASURE is one of:
  • VOTES = raw vote count
  • PERCENT = share of the office total, 0–100, rounded to two decimals

Governor

• VA_GOV25_SPANBERGER_D_VOTES
• VA_GOV25_SPANBERGER_D_PERCENT
• VA_GOV25_EARLESEARS_R_VOTES
• VA_GOV25_EARLESEARS_R_PERCENT
• VA_GOV25_TOTAL_VOTES

Lieutenant Governor

• VA_LG25_HASHMI_D_VOTES
• VA_LG25_HASHMI_D_PERCENT
• VA_LG25_REID_R_VOTES
• VA_LG25_REID_R_PERCENT
• VA_LG25_TOTAL_VOTES

Attorney General

• VA_AG25_JONES_D_VOTES
• VA_AG25_JONES_D_PERCENT
• VA_AG25_MIYARES_R_VOTES
• VA_AG25_MIYARES_R_PERCENT
• VA_AG25_TOTAL_VOTES

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Computation Notes

• Vote totals come from the 2025 precinct-level results file
  provided by the Virginia Department of Elections.
• Write-in votes are included in each office’s TOTAL_VOTES field.
  The candidate-specific VOTES fields contain the named candidates
  only; unnamed write-ins remain aggregated in the total.
• PERCENT fields are calculated as
  candidate_votes / office_total_votes * 100
  and rounded to two decimal places.

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Geometry Adjustments

Several targeted geometry and ID corrections align the precinct shapefile with the 2025 reporting structure.

1. Appomattox County – Agee and Oakville
   Agee precinct (PrcnctFIPS = "000502") has been consolidated into
   Oakville ("000501"). The two polygons are unioned into a single
   MultiPolygon associated with Oakville.

2. Giles County – Glen Lyn and Rich Creek
   Glen Lyn ("000101") has been consolidated into Rich Creek
   ("000102"). The geometries are unioned and associated with
   Rich Creek.

3. Madison County – Graves Mill, Wolftown, Etlan

   • Graves Mill ("000004") and Wolftown ("000006") are merged into
     one precinct labelled GRAVES MILL/WOLFTOWN with FIPS "000004".
   • Etlan’s 2025 results are reported under precinct ID 006.
     To match this, Etlan’s geometry is moved into the 000006 slot,
     labelled ETLAN with FIPS "000006".
     The former ETLAN 000009 geometry is blanked.

4. Fairfax County – Fairfax Court
   Precinct 700 FAIRFAX COURT still exists geometrically and has zero
   registered voters in the 2025 statewide election.
   The precinct is retained and all statewide result fields are set to
   0.0 rather than NULL.

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Unresolved or Special Precincts

Two precincts retain NULL statewide results in this dataset by design, because the 2025 results file does not provide a clean mapping for them.

1. Tazewell County – 107 “AMONATE”
   The Amonate polling place has closed and its voters have been reassigned, for example to a site on Adria Road.
   The 2025 results file does not specify which new precinct line contains those votes.
   The Amonate geometry is retained and all statewide election fields
   remain NULL.

2. Richmond County – 502 “PRECINCT 5-2”
   Historical metadata indicates a 5-2 precinct.
   The 2025 statewide results list only precincts 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, and 5-1.
   There is no separate 5-2 line in the data.
   The 5-2 geometry is retained with statewide election fields set to
   NULL. It is highly likely that its voters are included in 5-1,
   but this dataset avoids speculative assignment.

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Usage Notes

• Treat the identity fields
  state, county_name, precinct_id, precinct_code,
  precinct_name, precinct_label, precinct_geoid, precinct_uid
  as the canonical way to refer to precincts in scripts, maps,
  and documentation.
• Treat all VA_* fields as specific to the 2025 statewide contests.
  Future years and offices should follow the same naming grammar.
• county_fips and placeholder GEOIDs can be filled or corrected from
  an authoritative FIPS or precinct reference when this becomes a
  formal open dataset.

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Version

This file represents the first standardized release of the Virginia 2025 statewide precinct dataset with a stable schema intended for reuse across future election mapping projects.