Data sourced from the United States Congressional District Shapefiles, primarily hosted at https://cdmaps.polisci.ucla.edu/. Files are fetched through the GitHub repository at https://github.com/JeffreyBLewis/congressional-district-boundaries.
get_lewis(state, congress)two letter state abbreviation
congress number, from 1 to 114.
a sf tibble of the congressional district boundaries
Jeffrey B. Lewis, Brandon DeVine, Lincoln Pitcher, and Kenneth C. Martis. (2013) Digital Boundary Definitions of United States Congressional Districts, 1789-2012. [Data file and code book]. Retrieved from https://cdmaps.polisci.ucla.edu on [date of download].
get_lewis(state = 'NM', congress = 111)
#> Data sourced from the United States Congressional District Shapefiles
#> <https://cdmaps.polisci.ucla.edu/>.
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#> Simple feature collection with 3 features and 6 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension: XY
#> Bounding box: xmin: -109.0502 ymin: 31.3323 xmax: -103.002 ymax: 37.00023
#> Geodetic CRS: WGS 84
#> # A tibble: 3 × 7
#> startcong district statename member endcong id
#> * <chr> <chr> <chr> <list> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 108 2 New Mexico <named list [5]> 112 035108112002
#> 2 108 3 New Mexico <named list [5]> 112 035108112003
#> 3 108 1 New Mexico <named list [5]> 112 035108112001
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: geometry <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>