results_house

results_senate

results_president

2016 House General Election Results
2016 Senate General Election Results
2016 Presidential General Election Results

datasets

Easily analyze relational data from the United States 2016 federal
election cycle as reported by the Federal Election Commission.
This package contains data about candidates, committees, and a
variety of different financial expenditures. Data is from <https://www.fec.gov/data/browse-data/?tab=bulk-data>.

Marium Tapal

fec16

Data Package for the 2016 United States Federal Elections

Rana Gahwagy

Irene Ryan

Benjamin S. Baumer

results_house function

3 data frames with information about the House, Senate, and Presidential Election results:<dl class="dl-horizontal">
<dt>state</dt><dd>The state of the votes</dd>
<dt>district_id</dt><dd>District ID</dd>
<dt>cand_id</dt><dd>A code assigned to a candidate by the FEC</dd>
<dt>incumbent</dt><dd>A logical variable: TRUE if incumbent, FALSE if not</dd>
<dt>party</dt><dd>Party of the candidate</dd>
<dt>primary_votes</dt><dd>Number of votes in the primary election</dd>
<dt>primary_percent</dt><dd>Percentage of votes in the primary election</dd>
<dt>runoff_votes</dt><dd>Number of runoff votes</dd>
<dt>runoff_percent</dt><dd>Percentage of runoff votes</dd>
<dt>general_votes</dt><dd>Number of votes in the general election</dd>
<dt>general_percent</dt><dd>Percentage of votes in the general election</dd>
<dt>won</dt><dd>A logical variable: TRUE if candidate won, FALSE if not</dd>
<dt>footnotes</dt><dd>Footnotes</dd>
</dl>An object of class <code>tbl_df</code> (inherits from <code>tbl</code>, <code>data.frame</code>) with 377 rows and 10 columns.
An object of class <code>tbl_df</code> (inherits from <code>tbl</code>, <code>data.frame</code>) with 619 rows and 6 columns.

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General Federal Election Results — results_house

General Federal Election Results

results_house: General Federal Election Results

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