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aec2013_2cp_electorate: 2013 General election data for two candidate preferred votes for candidates for the House of Representative for each electorate

Description

A dataset containing two candidate preferred vote counts, and other results for the House of Representatives from the 2013 Australian federal election. Includes the count of votes for the leading two candidates in the electorate after distribution of preferences. The data were obtained from the Australian Electoral Commission, and downloaded from http://results.aec.gov.au/17496/Website/HouseDownloadsMenu-17496-csv.htm and http://www.aec.gov.au/elections/federal_elections/2013/downloads.htm.

Usage

aec2013_2cp_electorate

Arguments

Format

A data frame with the following variables:
  • ID: Electoral division ID
  • Electorate: Electoral division name
  • CandidateID: Candidate ID
  • Surname: Candidate surname
  • GivenNm: Candidate given name
  • BallotPosition: Candidate's position on the ballot
  • Elected: Whether the candidate was elected (Y/N)
  • HistoricElected:
  • PartyAb: Abbreviation for political party name
  • PartyNm: Political party name
  • OrdinaryVotes: Number of ordinates votes cast for the candidate
  • AbsentVotes: Number of absentee votes cast for the candidate
  • ProvisionalVotes: Number of provisional votes cast for the candidate
  • PrePollVotes: Number of pre-poll votes cast for the candidate
  • PostalVotes: Number of postal votes cast for the candidate
  • TotalVotes: Total votes cast for the candidate
  • Swing: Percentage change since the last election