voting_places: General Election Voting Places 2008 and onwards

In nzelect: New Zealand Election Data

Description

Voting places for the New Zealand general elections in 2008, 2011 and 2014

Usage

voting_places

Format

A data frame with 7,909 rows and 15 variables.

Details

• electorate_number

• electorate. Name of electorate in which the voting place is physically located.

• voting_place_id.

• voting_place_suburb

• northing Coordinates, on one of two incompatible systems - either NZTM2000 or NZMG - see the coordinate_system variable for which.

• easting as per northing

• longitude Use with caution.

• latitude Use with caution.

• voting_place. Address of the VotingPlace. Cross-references to nzge$voting_place.

• election_year. Year in which this was a voting place for the election.

• coordinate_system. Either NZMG (New Zealand Map Grid) or NZTM2000 (New Zealand Transverse Mercator Projection)

• TA2014_NAM. Name of the Territorial Authority in which the voting place is physically located. Use with caution.

• REGC2014_n. Name of the Regional Council in which the voting place is physically located. Use with caution.

• AU2014. Number of the Area Unit in which the voting place is physically located. Use with caution.

• MB2014. Number of the Mesh Block in which the voting place is physically located. Use with caution.

There are problems with the locations of many voting places which will be resolved in future versions.

Source

http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2014/e9/html/statistics.html (and similar for earlier years) for the voting place locations. http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/Maps_and_geography/Geographic-areas/digital-boundary-files.aspx for the 2014 shapefiles for Regional Council, Territorial Authority, and Area Unit. See https://github.com/ellisp/nzelect/tree/master/prep for the code linking the two.

See Also

nzge

nzelect documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:44 p.m.