congress: Congressional election data

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Congressional election data

Description

Data on congressional election outcomes in the United States between 1948 and 1990, based upon the paper "Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? Evidence from the U.S. House" by David S. Lee, Enrico Moretti, Matthew J. Butler, 2004, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119: 807-859. This sample is restricted to elections where (i) the incumbent is running for re-election and (ii) are not running unopposed. There are 9,788 observations available, and demographic variables are available for 6,774 of the observations.

Usage

congress

Format

congress

A data frame with 9,788 rows and 15 columns:

state

State code (ICPSR coding)

district

District code

demvote

Number of votes for Democrat candidate

repvote

Number of votes for Republican candidate

year

Year of election

demvoteshare

Percentage of vote for Democrat candidate

lagdemvoteshare

Percentage of vote for Democrat candidate in last election

totpop

Population of Congressional district

medianincome

Median (nominal) income of Congressional district

pcturban

Percentage of Congressional district that is urban

pctblack

Percentage of Congressional district that is black

pcthighschl

Percentage of Congressional district that is HS graduates

votingpop

Voting population of Congressional district

democrat

1 if Democrat wins election (demvoteshare>0.5), 0 otherwise

lagdemocrat

1 if Democrat won last election (lagdemvoteshare>0.5), 0 otherwise

Source

https://eml.berkeley.edu/%7Emoretti/data3.html

probstats4econ documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 8:29 p.m.