A data set for 1980 Presidential election results covering 3,107 US counties using geographical coordinates. In addition, three spatial neighbour objects, k4 not using Great Circle distances, dll using Great Circle distances, and e80_queen of Queen contiguities for equivalent County polygons taken from file co1980p020.tar.gz on the USGS National Atlas site, and a spatial weights object imported from elect.ford - a 4-nearest neighbour non-GC row-standardised object, but with coercion to symmetry.
data(elect80)A SpatialPointsDataFrame with 3107 observations on the following 7 variables.
FIPSa factor of county FIPS codes
longa numeric vector of longitude values
lata numeric vector of latitude values
pc_turnoutVotes cast as proportion of population over age 19 eligible to vote
pc_collegePopulation with college degrees as proportion of population over age 19 eligible to vote
pc_homeownershipHomeownership as proportion of population over age 19 eligible to vote
pc_incomeIncome per capita of population over age 19 eligible to vote