The data is used by Nguyen et. al (2020) and originally disseminated by the French ministry (Ministère de l'Intérieur et des Outre-Mer). Information about the population characteristics comes from the french national statistics institute (INSEE).
electionAn object of class data.frame with 95 rows and 13 columns.
Lukas Dargel, Christine Thomas-Agnan
left, right, extreme_right: Vote shares during the election grouped into three blocks
Age_1839, Age_4064, Age_65plus: Share of the population falling into one of three age categories
Educ_BeforeHighschool, Educ_Highschool, Educ_Higher: Share of the population having completed a certain level of education.
asset_owner_rate: The proportion of people who own assets
income_taxpayer_rate: The proportion of people who pay income tax
forgeigner_rate: The proportion of foreigners
Nguyen THA, Laurent T, Thomas-Agnan C, Ruiz-Gazen A. Analyzing the impacts of socio-economic factors on French departmental elections with CoDa methods. J Appl Stat. 2020 Dec 9;49(5):1235-1251. doi: 10.1080/02664763.2020.1858274. PMID: 35707505; PMCID: PMC9041641.