voting_places {nzelect} | R Documentation |
General Election Voting Places 2008 and onwards
Description
Voting places for the New Zealand general elections in 2008, 2011 and 2014
Usage
voting_places
Format
A data frame with 7,909 rows and 15 variables.
Details
-
electorate_number
-
electorate
. Name of electorate in which the voting place is physically located. -
voting_place_id
. -
voting_place_suburb
-
northing
Coordinates, on one of two incompatible systems - either NZTM2000 or NZMG - see thecoordinate_system
variable for which. -
easting
as pernorthing
-
longitude
Use with caution. -
latitude
Use with caution. -
voting_place
. Address of the VotingPlace. Cross-references tonzge$voting_place
. -
election_year
. Year in which this was a voting place for the election. -
coordinate_system
. Either NZMG (New Zealand Map Grid) or NZTM2000 (New Zealand Transverse Mercator Projection) -
TA2014_NAM
. Name of the Territorial Authority in which the voting place is physically located. Use with caution. -
REGC2014_n
. Name of the Regional Council in which the voting place is physically located. Use with caution. -
AU2014
. Number of the Area Unit in which the voting place is physically located. Use with caution. -
MB2014
. Number of the Mesh Block in which the voting place is physically located. Use with caution.
There are problems with the locations of many voting places which will be resolved in future versions.
Source
http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2014/e9/html/statistics.html (and similar for earlier years) for the voting place locations. http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/Maps_and_geography/Geographic-areas/digital-boundary-files.aspx for the 2014 shapefiles for Regional Council, Territorial Authority, and Area Unit. See https://github.com/ellisp/nzelect/tree/master/prep for the code linking the two.