results_senate

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_senate function

A data frame with 377 rows and 10 columns providing information the House election results:<dl>
<dt>state</dt>
<dd>The state of the votes</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>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>

Format

Senate Election Results — results_senate

A data frame with 377 rows and 10 columns providing information the House election results:<dl>
<dt>state</dt>
<dd>The state of the votes</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>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>

results_senate: Senate Election Results

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