elasticity_by_district: Political Elasticity Scores

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Description

This folder contains the data behind the story 'Election Update: The House Districts That Swing The Most (And Least) With The National Mood' https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-the-house-districts-that-swing-the-most-and-least-with-the-national-mood/

Usage

elasticity_by_district

Format

A dataset with 435 rows representing congressional districts and 2 variables

district

congressional district

pvi_538

pvi

Note

The original dataset only has 2 columns: "district" and "elasticity". I separated the "district" columns into two. For example, in row 1 of the dataset, the original "district" = "MI-5", and I separated it into “state" = "Michigan" and "district_number" = "5". In addition, I used the full names for all states instead of abbreviations.

Source

An elasticity score measures how sensitive a state or district it is to changes in the national political environment.

See Also

elasticity_by_state

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