Download two party preference voting data from each polling booth, from the seven Australian Federal elections between 2001 and 2016.
twoparty_pollingbooth_download(...)Additional arguments passed to `download.file`
Downloads and returns the two party preferred votes for candidates in the House of Representatives, for each polling both, in the six Australian Federal elections between 2001 and 2016.
A data frame containing two party preference votes
A dataset containing two party preferred vote counts, winning candidate names, polling place locations, and other results for the House of Representatives from each of the 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 Australian federal elections. Includes the count of votes for the Australian Labor Party and the count of votes for the Liberal-National Coalition for each polling place. This data set is obtained using the `twoparty_pollingbooth_download` function. The data were obtained from the Australian Electoral Commission.
A data frame with the following variables:
StateAb: Abbreviation for state name
DivisionID: Electoral division ID
DivisionNm: Electoral division name
PollingPlaceID: Polling place ID
PollingPlace: Polling place 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
PremisesPostCode: Post code of polling booth
Latitude: Coordinates
Longitude: Coordinates
year: Election year
# NOT RUN {
tpp_pp <- twoparty_pollingbooth_download()
library(dplyr)
tpp_pp %>% filter(year == 2016) %>% arrange(-LNP_Percent) %>% head
# }
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# }
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