Minneapolis2013: Ballots in the 2013 Mayoral election in Minneapolis
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The choices marked on each (valid) ballot for the election, which was run using a rank-choice, instant runoff system.

1	data("Minneapolis2013")

A data frame with 80101 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

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.

Ballot data from the Minneapolis city government: http://vote.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@clerk/documents/webcontent/2013-mayor-cvr.xlsx

Description of ranked-choice voting: http://vote.minneapolismn.gov/rcv/index.htm

A Minnesota Public Radio story about the election ballot tallying process: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/11/22/politics/ranked-choice-vote-count-programmers

The Wikipedia article about the election: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_mayoral_election,_2013