| Minneapolis2013 {mdsr} | R Documentation |
Ballots in the 2013 Mayoral election in Minneapolis
Description
The choices marked on each (valid) ballot for the election, which was run using a rank-choice, instant runoff system.
Usage
Minneapolis2013
Format
A data frame with 80,101 observations on the following 5 variables. All are stored as character strings.
- Precinct
Precincts are sub-divisions within Wards
- First
The voter's first choice
- Second
The voter's second choice
- Third
The voter's third choice
- Ward
The city is divided spatially into districts or 'wards'. These are further subdivided into precincts.
Details
Ballot information for the 2013 Minneapolis Mayoral election, which was run as a rank-choice election. In rank-choice, a voter can indicate first, second, and third choices. If a voter's first choice is eliminated (by being last in the count across voters), the second choice is promoted to that voter's first choice, and similarly third -> second. Eliminations are done successively until one candidate has a majority of the first-choice votes.
Source
Ballot data from the Minneapolis city government: https://vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data/election-results/2013/mayor/
References
Description of ranked-choice voting: https://vote.minneapolismn.gov/ranked-choice-voting/
A Minnesota Public Radio story about the election ballot tallying process: https://www.mprnews.org/2013/11/22/politics/ranked-choice-vote-count-programmers/
The Wikipedia article about the election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Minneapolis_mayoral_election
Examples
data(Minneapolis2013)