Minneapolis2013: Ballots in the 2013 Mayoral election in Minneapolis

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Ballots in the 2013 Mayoral election in Minneapolis

Description

The choices marked on each (valid) ballot for the election, which was run using a rank-choice, instant runoff system.

Usage

Minneapolis2013

Format

A data frame with 80,101 observations on the following 5 variables. All are stored as character strings.

Precinct

Precincts are sub-divisions within Wards

First

The voter's first choice

Second

The voter's second choice

Third

The voter's third choice

Ward

The city is divided spatially into districts or 'wards'. These are further subdivided into precincts.

Details

Ballot information for the 2013 Minneapolis Mayoral election, which was run as a rank-choice election. In rank-choice, a voter can indicate first, second, and third choices. If a voter's first choice is eliminated (by being last in the count across voters), the second choice is promoted to that voter's first choice, and similarly third -> second. Eliminations are done successively until one candidate has a majority of the first-choice votes.

Source

Ballot data from the Minneapolis city government: https://vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data/election-results/2013/mayor/

References

Description of ranked-choice voting: https://vote.minneapolismn.gov/ranked-choice-voting/

A Minnesota Public Radio story about the election ballot tallying process: https://www.mprnews.org/2013/11/22/politics/ranked-choice-vote-count-programmers/

The Wikipedia article about the election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Minneapolis_mayoral_election

Examples

data(Minneapolis2013)

mdsr documentation built on Jan. 6, 2023, 5:12 p.m.