The choices marked on each (valid) ballot for the election, which was run using a rank-choice, instant runoff system.
Minneapolis2013A data frame with 80,101 observations on the following 5 variables. All are stored as character strings.
Precincts are sub-divisions within Wards
The voter's first choice
The voter's second choice
The voter's third choice
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.
Description of ranked-choice voting: https://vote.minneapolismn.gov/ranked-choice-voting/
A Minnesota Public Radio story about the election ballot tallying process: https://www.mprnews.org/2013/11/22/politics/ranked-choice-vote-count-programmers/
The Wikipedia article about the election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Minneapolis_mayoral_election