The fifth presidential election of Sri Lanka was held in 2005. Its results are published
as a pdf file. The data available in this file is scraped and summarised as a data-frame Election2005.
Usage
data(Election2005)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 6 columns and 3494 rows.
Year
Year of the presidential election
District
District Names
Electorate
Electorate Names, Postal District Votes, Final District Results and Displaced District Votes
ColNames
Candidate Names, Total No of Valid Votes, No of Rejected Votes, Total No of Votes Polled and No of Registered Electors
Votes
No of votes for the ColNames variable
Percentage
Percentage of votes with regard to the No of Registered Electors and the Total No of Votes Polled for Total No of Votes Polled and all other ColNames variable, respectively
Details
There are 22 districts and 160 electorates in Sri Lanka. In 2005 thirteen candidates participated in this election and
Mahinda Rajapaksha became the fourth executive president.