I was able to get 45 counties out of the 62 counties in New York State’s election districts shapefiles for my use in future years from public online sources. 🐴 🐘

That’s not all of the counties but the only big one I couldn’t get was Nassau County and I’m less interested in that county for my personal interest compared to Upstate counties. But I have Suffolk County, Westchester County, Rockland County and New York City. The last three were official shapefiles on their website, while Suffolk was on their county REST/Server.

I also got all of the North Country, along with Chautauqua, Erie, Onondaga, Oneida, Broome, Schenectady, Albany and Rennselear County. Many but not all of the hick counties – but they are so Republican, they probably aren’t interesting to analyze. I could not get Columbia or Dutchess County as neither county posts them or has a public REST/Services.

Monroe County was a bitch as their REST/Server requires an API Token from their online mapper but once you present the token with the proper query of the sever it’s happy to give you the GeoJson of the election districts.

I took careful notes on where I got the files from so my hope is in early 2022 once state redistricting is done I can go back to the county websites and REST/Services and get the new election districts and use them to create super EDs and crosswalk tables and compare old results to current results.

It was a lot of tedious work but I think it will be very useful in the coming years…