voter_count: US Voter Turnout Data.

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US Voter Turnout Data.

Description

State-level data on federal elections held in November between 1980 and 2014.

Usage

voter_count

Format

A data frame with 936 rows and 7 variables.

year

Year election was held.

region

Specifies if data is state or national total.

voting_eligible_population

Number of citizens eligible to vote; does not count felons.

total_ballots_counted

Number of ballots cast.

highest_office

Number of ballots that contained a vote for the highest office of that election.

percent_total_ballots_counted

Overall voter turnout percentage.

percent_highest_office

Highest office voter turnout percentage.

Source

United States Election Project

Examples

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(voter_count,
  aes(percent_highest_office, percent_total_ballots_counted))+
 geom_point()+
 labs(title = "Total Ballots V Highest Office",
  x = "Highest Office",
  y = "Total Ballots")

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