GE2014: General Election Results 2014

Description

New Zealand 2014 general election results by voting place

Usage

GE2014

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 136,195 rows and 7 variables.

Details

ApproxLocation. Approximate location of voting place
VotingPlace. Exact location of voting place
Party. Party voted for (party vote) or party of candidate voted for (candidate vote)
Votes. Number of votes
Electorate. Electorate in which voters were enrolled. Note that this is not necessarily the physical location of the VotingPlace, so VotingPlace and Electorate have a many to many relationship
VotingType. Party (proportional representation) or Candidate (first past the vote). In New Zealand each voter has to vote for both an individual candidate to represent their electorate, and a party vote for the overall makeup of Parliament.
Candidate. If VotingType == "Candidate", the name of the candidate; otherwise NA

GE2014 is deprecated; please use nzge instead - it has results back to 2002 and is the one we will update in future.

Examples

Run this code

# NOT RUN {
# the following matches the results published at
# http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2014/e9/html/e9_part1.html
library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)
GE2014 %>%
    mutate(VotingType = paste0(VotingType, "Vote")) %>%
    group_by(Party, VotingType) %>%
    summarise(Votes = sum(Votes)) %>%
    spread(VotingType, Votes) %>%
    select(Party, PartyVote, CandidateVote) %>%
    ungroup() %>%
    arrange(desc(PartyVote))
# }