election: US Presidential Election 2016, State-level results

In socviz: Utility Functions and Data Sets for Data Visualization

Description

State-level vote totals and shares for the 2016 US Presidential election. The variables are as follows:

• state. State name.

• st. State abbreviation.

• fips. State FIPS code

• total_vote. Total votes cast.

• vote_margin. Winner's vote margin

• winner. Winning candidate.

• party. Winning party.

• pct_margin. Winner's percentage margin (of total vote)

• r_points. Percentage point difference between Trump share and Clinton

• d_points. Percentage point difference between Clinton share and Trump

• pct_clinton. Clinton vote share (

• pct_trump. Trump vote share (

• pct_johnson. Johnson vote share (

• pct_other. Other vote share (

• clinton_vote. Clinton vote total

• trump_vote. Trump vote total

• johnson_vote. Johnson vote total

• other_vote. Other vote total

• ev_dem. Electoral votes for Clinton

• ev_rep. Electoral votes for Trump

• ev_oth. Electoral votes for Other

• census. Census region.

Usage

election

Format

A (tibble) data frame with 51 rows and 22 variables.

Source

Vote data from Dave Leip, US Election Atlas, http://uselectionatlas.org.

socviz documentation built on July 1, 2020, 7:04 p.m.