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A repo for the running of a GitHub Action that retrieves and stores the L.A. County's 2024 election results feed from lavote.gov.

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L.A. County Election Results 2024

A repo that runs a GitHub Action to retrieve and store the L.A. County's 2024 election results feeds from lavote.gov.

See this data put to use in an Observable notebook! (Also see the primary's notebook.)

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November 5 General

File/Directory Notes
general/results.json A snapshot of the JSON results file RR/CC makes available.
general/election_data.json This file is loaded on the dynamic updating results page. It gives every contest and candidate a unique ID. Despite having slots for vote counts, these are always zeroed out.
general/counter_data.json This file is loaded on the dynamic updating results page. It provides the vote values (and other totals) found on a results page. The IDs that appear in this file sync up with the ones in election_data.json.
general/results/*.json These files represent each copy of results.json collected in a snapshot.
general/counter_data/*.json These files represent each copy of counter_data.json collected on a given day.
general/timeframes.json This file is where all the historical data is brought together. It includes historical vote totals and changes for every single contest and candidate per snapshot.

March 5 Primary

File/Directory Notes
primary/results.json A snapshot of the JSON results file RR/CC makes available.
primary/election_data.json This file is loaded on the dynamic updating results page. It gives every contest and candidate a unique ID. Despite having slots for vote counts, these are always zeroed out.
primary/counter_data.json This file is loaded on the dynamic updating results page. It provides the vote values (and other totals) found on a results page. The IDs that appear in this file sync up with the ones in election_data.json.
primary/results/*.json These files represent each copy of results.json collected in a snapshot.
primary/counter_data/*.json These files represent each copy of counter_data.json collected on a given day.
primary/timeframes.json This file is where all the historical data is brought together. It includes historical vote totals and changes for every single contest and candidate per snapshot.

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A repo for the running of a GitHub Action that retrieves and stores the L.A. County's 2024 election results feed from lavote.gov.

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