VotesGR: New Democracy and Total Votes in Greece in 2012
Description
New Democracy and Total Votes per prefecture in the double parliamentary elections in Greece in May and June 2012, respectively
Usage
data(VotesGR)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 51 observations on the following 8 variables.
MapCode2
a numeric vector of codes for joining this data to a map
NAME_ENG
a alphanumeric vector of prefecture names in greeklish
X
a numeric vector of x coordinates
Y
a numeric vector of y coordinates
NDJune12
a numeric vector of votes for New Democracy in June 2012 parliamentary elections
NDMay12
a numeric vector of votes for New Democracy in May 2012 parliamentary elections
AllJune12
a numeric vector of total valid votes in June 2012 parliamentary elections
AllMay12
a numeric vector of total valid votes in May 2012 parliamentary elections
Details
The X,Y coordinates refer to the geometric centroids of the 51 Prefectures in Greece in 2011. All electoral districts in the Attica Region have been merged to one. The two electoral regions in Thessaloniki have also been merged to a single region matching the NUTS II regions geography.
References
Georganos, S., Kalogirou, S. (2014) Spatial analysis of voting patterns of national elections in Greece, 10th International Congress of the Hellenic Geographical Society, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 22-24 October 2014.