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aec2016_2pp_electorate: 2016 General election data for two party preferred votes for candidates for the House of Representative for each electorate

Description

A dataset containing two party preferred vote counts, winning candidate names, and other results for the House of Representatives from the 2016 Australian federal election. Includes the count of votes for the Australian Labor Party and the count of votes for the Liberal-National Coalition for each polling place. 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/2016/downloads.htm.

Usage

aec2016_2pp_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 at the polling place for the candidate
  • State: Abbreviation for state name
  • Total_Australian_Labor_Party_Votes_per_electorate:
  • Average_Australian_Labor_Party_Percentage_in_electorate:
  • Total_Liberal_National_Coalition_Votes_per_electorate:
  • Average_Liberal_National_Coalition_Percentage_in_electorate:
  • Total_2pp_votes_per_electorate: