Results of the Sri Lankan presidential election held in 1982, extracted from PDF result tables and prepared as Election1982.
Usage
data(Election1982)Format
A data frame with 6 columns.
- Year
Year of the presidential election.
- District
Electoral district name.
- Electorate
Polling-division name, Postal District Votes, or Final District Results.
- ColNames
Candidate name or summary label: Total No of Valid Votes, No of Rejected Votes, Total No of Votes Polled, or No of Registered Electors.
- Votes
Candidate vote count or the count associated with a summary label. Registered-elector rows contain elector counts rather than votes.
- Percentage
Reported or recalculated percentage on a 0–100 scale. The denominator depends on the row type. Missing values indicate percentages that were not supplied or calculated.
Source
Election Commission of Sri Lanka: https://elections.gov.lk/en/elections/results_pre_E.html.
Data extraction and preparation: https://github.com/Amalan-ConStat/PresidentialElection.
Details
Six candidates contested this election.
Preparation included corrections to Walapane total polled votes, Teldeniya registered-elector counts, corresponding district totals, and selected percentages. Postal registered-elector rows with missing counts were removed. Remaining missing counts were replaced with zero.
District totals and their component results are both included. These reporting levels should be analysed separately to avoid double-counting.
Examples
data(Election1982)
Election1982[Election1982$District == "Colombo" & Election1982$Electorate == "Colombo-North", ]
#> # A tibble: 10 × 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Percentage
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 1982 Colombo Colombo-North Mr.J.R. Jayawardene 29380 69.0
#> 2 1982 Colombo Colombo-North Mr.H.S.R.B.K. Kobbekaduwa 10641 25
#> 3 1982 Colombo Colombo-North Mr. Rohana Wijeweera 1645 3.86
#> 4 1982 Colombo Colombo-North Mr.G.G. Ponnambalam 477 1.12
#> 5 1982 Colombo Colombo-North Dr. Colvin R. De Silva 361 0.85
#> 6 1982 Colombo Colombo-North Mr. Vasudeva Nanayakkara 60 0.14
#> 7 1982 Colombo Colombo-North Total No of Valid Votes 42564 98.7
#> 8 1982 Colombo Colombo-North No of Rejected Votes 575 1.33
#> 9 1982 Colombo Colombo-North Total No of Votes Polled 43139 75.0
#> 10 1982 Colombo Colombo-North No of Registered Electors 57534 NA