legend_local

<code>legend_local()</code> downloads and aggregates the party denominations (coalitions or parties) from the local elections in Brazil,
disaggregated by cities. The function returns a <code>data.frame</code> where each observation
corresponds to a city.

Offers a set of functions to easily download and clean
Brazilian electoral data from the Superior Electoral Court website.
Among others, the package retrieves data on local and
federal elections for all positions (city councilor, mayor, state deputy,
federal deputy, governor, and president) aggregated by
state, city, and electoral zones.

Denisson Silva

electionsBR

R Functions to Download and Clean Brazilian Electoral Data

legend_local function

<dl><dt>year</dt>
<dd>Election year. For this function, only the years 2008, 2012 and 2016
are available.</dd>
<dt>uf</dt>
<dd>Federation Unit acronym (<code>character vector</code>).</dd>
<dt>encoding</dt>
<dd>Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors
when <code>ascii = TRUE</code>.</dd>
<dt>temp</dt>
<dd>(<code>logical</code>). If <code>TRUE</code>, keep the temporary compressed file for future use (recommended)</dd></dl>

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Download data on local election coalitions in Brazil — legend_local

<dl>

<dt>year</dt>
<dd>Election year. For this function, only the years 2008, 2012 and 2016
are available.</dd>


<dt>uf</dt>
<dd>Federation Unit acronym (<code>character vector</code>).</dd>


<dt>encoding</dt>
<dd>Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors
when <code>ascii = TRUE</code>.</dd>


<dt>temp</dt>
<dd>(<code>logical</code>). If <code>TRUE</code>, keep the temporary compressed file for future use (recommended)</dd>

</dl>

legend_local: Download data on local election coalitions in Brazil

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