party_mun_zone_local {electionsBR}

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

Description

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

Usage

party_mun_zone_local(year, uf = "all", encoding = "latin1", temp = TRUE)

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 are available.

uf

Federation Unit acronym (character vector).

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)

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_local() returns a data.frame.

Note

For the elections prior to 2000, some information can be incomplete.

Examples

## Not run: 
df <- party_mun_zone_local(2000)

## End(Not run)