This is an R package for accessing data on U.S. elections from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.
Install from GitHub:
if (!require('devtools', quietly = TRUE)) install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('MEDSL/elections')library(elections)
# We'll use dplyr for ease of illustration below
library(dplyr)The package makes available the following datasets:
presidential_precincts_2016senate_precincts_2016house_precincts_2016state_precincts_2016local_precincts_2016state_idscounty_idscounty_sub_ids
data(presidential_precincts_2016)
presidential_precincts_2016 %>%
select(state, county_fips, precinct, candidate, office, votes) %>%
head()
#> state county_fips precinct candidate
#> 1 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Hillary Clinton
#> 2 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Gary Johnson
#> 3 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Jill Stein
#> 4 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Donald Trump
#> 5 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 6 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Alabama Democratic Party
#> office votes
#> 1 US President 135
#> 2 US President 0
#> 3 US President 1
#> 4 US President 218
#> 5 US President 4
#> 6 Straight Party 119data(senate_precincts_2016)
senate_precincts_2016 %>%
select(state, county_fips, precinct, candidate, office, votes) %>%
head()
#> state county_fips precinct candidate
#> 1 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 2 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Alabama Democratic Party
#> 3 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Alabama Republican Party
#> 4 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Ron Crumpton
#> 5 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Richard C. Shelby
#> 6 Alabama 01001 100 TRINITY METHODIST [Write-in]
#> office votes
#> 1 US Senate 0
#> 2 Straight Party 119
#> 3 Straight Party 120
#> 4 US Senate 137
#> 5 US Senate 214
#> 6 US Senate 9data(house_precincts_2016)
house_precincts_2016 %>%
select(state, county_fips, precinct, candidate, office, votes) %>%
head()
#> state county_fips precinct candidate
#> 1 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 2 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Alabama Democratic Party
#> 3 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Alabama Republican Party
#> 4 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Nathan Mathis
#> 5 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Martha Roby
#> 6 Alabama 01001 100 TRINITY METHODIST [Write-in]
#> office votes
#> 1 US House 13
#> 2 Straight Party 119
#> 3 Straight Party 120
#> 4 US House 143
#> 5 US House 192
#> 6 US House 235data(state_precincts_2016)
state_precincts_2016 %>%
select(state, county_fips, precinct, candidate, office, votes) %>%
head()
#> state county_fips precinct candidate
#> 1 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 2 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 3 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 4 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 5 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 6 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> office votes
#> 1 ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, PLACE 1 0
#> 2 ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, PLACE 2 0
#> 3 ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, PLACE 3 0
#> 4 CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE, 19TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, PLACE 2 0
#> 5 CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE, 19TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, PLACE 3 0
#> 6 DISTRICT ATTORNEY, 19TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 0data(local_precincts_2016)
local_precincts_2016 %>%
select(state, county_fips, precinct, candidate, office, votes) %>%
head()
#> state county_fips precinct candidate
#> 1 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 2 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 3 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 4 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 5 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR [Write-in]
#> 6 Alabama 01001 10 JONES COMMUNITY CTR Alabama Democratic Party
#> office votes
#> 1 MEMBER, AUTAUGA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, 0
#> 2 MEMBER, AUTAUGA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, 2
#> 3 MEMBER, AUTAUGA COUNTY COMMISSION, DISTRICT NO. 3 0
#> 4 MEMBER, AUTAUGA COUNTY COMMISSION, DISTRICT NO. 5 3
#> 5 SUPERINTENDENT, AUTAUGA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION 0
#> 6 Straight Party 119State identifiers:
data(state_ids)
head(state_ids)
#> state state_icpsr state_postal state_fips
#> 1 Alabama 41 AL 1
#> 2 Alaska 81 AK 2
#> 3 Arizona 61 AZ 4
#> 4 Arkansas 42 AR 5
#> 5 California 71 CA 6
#> 6 Colorado 62 CO 8County identifiers:
data(county_ids)
head(county_ids)
#> state_postal county_fips county_ansi county_name land_area
#> 1 AL 01001 00161526 Autauga County 1539614693
#> 2 AL 01003 00161527 Baldwin County 4117605847
#> 3 AL 01005 00161528 Barbour County 2292144656
#> 4 AL 01007 00161529 Bibb County 1612165763
#> 5 AL 01009 00161530 Blount County 1670079465
#> 6 AL 01011 00161531 Bullock County 1613059168
#> water_area land_area_sq_mi water_area_sq_mi county_lat county_long
#> 1 25744269 594.449 9.940 32.53224 -86.64644
#> 2 1133109409 1589.817 437.496 30.65922 -87.74607
#> 3 50538698 885.002 19.513 31.87025 -85.40510
#> 4 9603798 622.461 3.708 33.01589 -87.12715
#> 5 15039864 644.821 5.807 33.97736 -86.56644
#> 6 6054988 622.806 2.338 32.10176 -85.71726County subdivision identifiers:
data(county_sub_ids)
head(county_sub_ids)
#> state_postal county_sub_fips county_sub_ansi county_sub_name
#> 1 AL 0100190171 00161593 Autaugaville CCD
#> 2 AL 0100190315 00165647 Billingsley CCD
#> 3 AL 0100192106 00165648 Marbury CCD
#> 4 AL 0100192628 00165649 Prattville CCD
#> 5 AL 0100390207 00161594 Bay Minette CCD
#> 6 AL 0100390846 00165650 Daphne CCD
#> functional_status land_area water_area land_area_sq_mi water_area_sq_mi
#> 1 S 478160386 13912232 184.619 5.372
#> 2 S 386871321 1596305 149.372 0.616
#> 3 S 292756921 516153 113.034 0.199
#> 4 S 381826065 9719579 147.424 3.753
#> 5 S 1338292029 27613551 516.717 10.662
#> 6 S 297343727 142430774 114.805 54.993
#> county_sub_lat county_sub_long
#> 1 32.45741 -86.72900
#> 2 32.60614 -86.74899
#> 3 32.63852 -86.51487
#> 4 32.47982 -86.50648
#> 5 30.80966 -87.70619
#> 6 30.66744 -87.90619