santa.cruz {elec} | R Documentation |
Santa Cruz Election Data
Description
santa.cruz
and santa.cruz.audit
hold data from a Santa Cruz
County, CA, contest held in November, 2008, for County Supervisor in the 1st
District. The competitive candidates were John Leopold and Betty Danner.
According to the semi-official results provided to us by the Santa Cruz
County Clerk's office, Leopold won with votes on 45% of the 26,655 ballots.
Danner received the votes on 37% of the ballots. The remaining ballots
were undervoted, overvoted, or had votes for minor candidates.
santa.cruz
holds the semi-official results for the race.
santa.cruz.audit
holds the audit totals for the random sample of
precincts selected for the audit. Note the santa.cruz.audit
vote
counts are larger for some precincts due the missing provisional ballot
counts in the semi-official results.
Format
A data frame with 152 observations on the following 5 variables.
- PID
Precinct IDs (unique) for all precincts involved in race
- r
Total number of registered voters in the precinct.
- tot.votes
Total number of ballots cast in the precinct.
- leopold
Total number of ballots marked for John Leopold.
- danner
Total number of ballots marked for Betty Danner.
Source
Santa Cruz County, CA, Clerk Gail Pellerin, and their staff.
See Also
Examples
data(santa.cruz)
elec.data( santa.cruz, C.names=c("danner","leopold") )