cd_info_long: Congressional District level information - long version

In kuriwaki/ccesMRPprep: Functions and Data to Prepare CCES data for MRP

Congressional District level information - long version

Description

cd_info_long provides a "long" version of the yearly ⁠cd_info_20**⁠ datasets.

Usage

cd_info_long

Format

cd_info_long is a dataframe with 13050 rows, covering the maps of 9 election years (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024) for each of the 435 congressional districts.

lines

Is the year corresponding to the geography (district line). For example, lines = 2008 and ⁠cd = "AL-01⁠ indicates that the row is representing AL-01's geography as used in the 2008 election.

cd

Is the CD corresponding to the year of the geography (district line). Note that districts can change drastically by redistricting; a state's "first congressional district" from one lines can cover a different area than the same first congressional district for another.

elec

Is the year of the election for the presidential election data that follows

party, candidate

Define the presidential candidate that corresponds to the elec (which may not be the same as lines). For example, ⁠lines = 2012, cd = AL-01⁠ combined with elec = 2008 represents the 2008 election results in the newly redistricted (2012) AL-01 geography

pct

The two party voteshares of the candidate

presvotes_total

The total number of votes for President in that CD

presvotes_DR

The total number of Democrat + Republican votes for President in that CD

See Also

cd_info for versions with one row per district, and documentation of sources

Examples

 library(dplyr)

 # get only data for proximate years
 cd_info_long |> filter((elec == lines) | (elec + 2 == lines))

 # this subset returns exactly 2 * 435 districts per cycle:
 cd_info_long |> filter((elec == lines) | (elec + 2 == lines)) |> count(lines, party)

# this will show where the districts lines changed between 2022 and 2024
# (same election, same candidate, different map)
cd_info_long |>
 filter(lines %in% c(2022, 2024), elec == 2020, candidate == "biden") |>
 arrange(cd, lines)

kuriwaki/ccesMRPprep documentation built on Oct. 26, 2024, 10:22 p.m.