elections: County Presidential Election Results from 1960 through 2012

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A dataset presidential election results for each US county.

Usage

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Format

A tibble with 43,494 rows and 7 variables:

year

calendar year of the election

state

US state (in all lower cases letters) in which county is located

county

US county (in all lower case letters). Note that different states often have counties with the same names.

rep

number of votes cast for the Republican candidate

dem

number of votes cast for the Democratic candidate

other

number of votes cast for other candidates

rep_per

percentage of all votes cast for the Republican candidate

Source

http://qss.princeton.press/


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