eechidna (version 1.4.0)

tpp01: 2001 Australian Federal election data: Two party preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate. where Labor and Liberal parties were the two most popular parties.

Description

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.

Usage

tpp01

Arguments

Format

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