dublin_west {vote}

Election Dataset to Dublin West Constituency

Description

Dataset containing ranked votes for the Dublin West constituency in 2002, Ireland. Results of that STV elections can be viewed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_West#2002_general_election. They can be reproduced via the stv function, see Example below.

Usage

data("dublin_west")

Format

A data frame with 29988 observations and 9 candidates. Each record corresponds to one ballot with candidates being ranked between 1 and 9 with zeros allowed.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_West#2002_general_election

Examples

data(dublin_west)
head(dublin_west)

## Not run: 
# produce similar results as in the Wikipedia link above
dwstv <- stv(dublin_west, nseats = 3, eps = 1, constant.quota = TRUE)

# plot results
plot(dwstv)
image(dwstv)
image(dwstv, all.pref = TRUE)
## End(Not run)