vote_section_fed

<code>vote_section_fed()</code> downloads and cleans data on the verification of federal elections in Brazil,
disaggregated by electoral section. Different from other electionsBR's functions, results are only extract for individual states, one at a time. The function returns a <code>data.frame</code> where each observation
corresponds to an electoral section in a given Brazilian state.

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

vote_section_fed function

<dl><dt>year</dt>
<dd>Election year. For this function, only the years 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014
are available.</dd>
<dt>uf</dt>
<dd>Federation Unit acronym (<code>character vector</code>). Defaults to <code>'AC'</code> (Acre).</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 candidate electoral results in federal elections in Brazil by electoral section — vote_section_fed

<dl>

<dt>year</dt>
<dd>Election year. For this function, only the years 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014
are available.</dd>


<dt>uf</dt>
<dd>Federation Unit acronym (<code>character vector</code>). Defaults to <code>'AC'</code> (Acre).</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>

vote_section_fed: Download data on candidate electoral results in federal elections in Brazil by electoral section

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