iowa: iowa

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iowa

Description

A data frame containing information about the 2016 US Presidential Election for the state of Iowa.

Usage

iowa

Format

A data frame with 1386 observations on the following 5 variables.

office

The office that the candidates were running for.

candidate

President/Vice President pairs who were running for office.

party

Political part of the candidate.

county

County in Iowa where the votes were cast.

votes

Number of votes received by the candidate.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

plot_data <- iowa |>
  filter(candidate != "Total") |>
  group_by(candidate) |>
  summarize(total_votes = sum(votes) / 1000)

ggplot(plot_data, aes(total_votes, candidate)) +
  geom_col() +
  theme_minimal() +
  labs(
    title = "2016 Presidential Election in Iowa",
    subtitle = "Popular vote",
    y = "",
    x = "Number of Votes (in thousands)
    "
  )

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