party_mun_zone {electionsBR}

Download data on the polls by parties from federal elections in Brazil

Description

party_mun_zone() downloads and aggregates the data on the polls by parties from the federal elections in Brazil, disaggregated by cities and electoral zones. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a city/zone.

Usage

party_mun_zone(
  year,
  uf = "all",
  br_archive = FALSE,
  encoding = "latin1",
  temp = TRUE,
  readme_pdf = FALSE
)

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 are available.

uf

Filter results by Federation Unit acronym (character vector).

br_archive

In the TSE's data repository, some results can be obtained for the whole country by loading a single within a single file by setting this argument to TRUE (may not work in for some elections and, in other, it recoverns only electoral data for presidential elections, absent in other files).

encoding

Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.

temp

(logical). If TRUE, keep the temporary compressed file for future use (recommended)

readme_pdf

original readme

Details

If export is set to TRUE, the downloaded data is saved as .dta and .sav files in the current directory.

Value

party_mun_zone() returns a data.frame.

Note

For the elections prior to 2002, some information can be incomplete. For the 2014 and 2018 elections, more variable are available.

Examples

## Not run: 
df <- party_mun_zone(2002)

## End(Not run)