A dataset containing two party preferred vote counts, winning candidate names, and other results for the House of Representatives from the 2001 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 electorate. The data were obtained from the Australian Electoral Commission, and downloaded from https://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Publications/statistics/files/aec-2001-election-statistics.zip.
tpp01
A data frame with the following variables:
UniqueID: numeric identifier that links the electoral division with Census and other election datasets.
DivisionNm: Electoral division name
StateAb: Abbreviation for state name
LNP_Votes: Count of two party preferred vote in favour of the Liberal National coalition
LNP_Percent: Percentage of two party preferred vote in favour of the Liberal National coalition
ALP_Votes: Count of two party preferred vote in favour of the Labor party
ALP_Percent: Percentage of two party preferred vote in favour of the Labor party
TotalVotes: Total number of votes cast
Swing: Percentage point change in two party preferred vote from the previous election