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Data on the direct primary in US congressional elections
Description
A data set on the presence of the direct primary in U.S. congressional elections and the vote shares for the Democratic, Republican, and third parties. Based on ICPSR Study 6985
Usage
primary
Format
A data frame with 1164 observations and the following 7 variables:
- state
name of the state
- year
year of the congressional election
- dem_share
percentage of the total vote cast for the Democratic candidate, 0-100
- rep_share
percentage of the total vote cast for the Republican candidate, 0-100
- other_share
percentage of the total vote cast for other parties, 0-100
- primary
binary variable indicating if the state had the direct primary (=1) or not (=0)
- south
binary variable indicating if the state is in the South (=1) or not (=0)
Source
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/6895
References
David, Paul T., and Claggett, William. Party Strength in the United States: 1872-1996. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-09-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06895.v1