REM  This is a sample text data file for the Center for Voting and Democracy's
REM  Election Data Project.  If you have any questions about gathering data, 
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REM  This sample file contains one row of field names and one row of sample data.

State, Leg_body, Year, District, Rep, Dem, Other1, Other2, Total, Other1_party, Other2_party, Name_rep, Name_Dem, Name_Other1, name_other2, Comments
California, State_senate, 1948, 1, 123456, 213452, 1234, 123, , Const, Soc, “Jones, Janet”, “Smith, Rachel”, “Chang, Michael”, “Temple, Shirley”, “This is the comment field for the first sample record.”