results_president

2016 House 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_president function

A data frame with 619 rows and 6 columns providing information the House election results:<dl>
<dt>cand_id</dt>
<dd>A code assigned to a candidate by the FEC</dd><dt>state</dt>
<dd>The state of the votes</dd><dt>party</dt>
<dd>Party of the candidate</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>
</dl>

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Presidential Election Results — results_president

A data frame with 619 rows and 6 columns providing information the House election results:<dl>
<dt>cand_id</dt>
<dd>A code assigned to a candidate by the FEC</dd>

<dt>state</dt>
<dd>The state of the votes</dd>

<dt>party</dt>
<dd>Party of the candidate</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>


</dl>

results_president: Presidential Election Results

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