The second presidential election of Sri Lanka was held in 1988. Its results are published as a pdf file. The data available in this file is scraped and summarised as a data-frame Election1988.
Usage
data(Election1988)Format
A data frame with 6 columns and 1406 rows.
YearYear of the presidential election
DistrictDistrict Names
ElectorateElectorate Names, Postal District Votes and Final District Results
ColNamesCandidate Names, Total No of Valid Votes, No of Rejected Votes, Total No of Votes Polled and No of Registered Electors
VotesNo of votes for the ColNames variable
PercentagePercentage of votes with regard to the No of Registered Electors and the Total No of Votes Polled for Total No of Votes Polled and all other ColNames variable, respectively
Source
Extracted from the pdf published by the Sri Lankan Elections commission at https://elections.gov.lk or the project that I have completed in scraping the data from the pdf file at : https://github.com/Amalan-ConStat/PresidentialElection
Details
There are 22 districts and 160 electorates in Sri Lanka. In 1988 three candidates participated in this election and Ranasinghe Premadasa became the second executive president.
Examples
Election1988[Election1988$District == "Colombo" & Election1988$Electorate == "Colombo-North",]
#> # A tibble: 7 × 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Percentage
#> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 1988 Colombo Colombo-North Mr.Ranasinghe Premadasa 22389 63.3
#> 2 1988 Colombo Colombo-North Mrs.Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Band… 10744 30.4
#> 3 1988 Colombo Colombo-North Mr.Ahangama Vithanage Oswin Nan… 2259 6.38
#> 4 1988 Colombo Colombo-North Total No of Valid Votes 35392 98.2
#> 5 1988 Colombo Colombo-North No of Rejected Votes 647 1.8
#> 6 1988 Colombo Colombo-North Total No of Votes Polled 36039 66.6
#> 7 1988 Colombo Colombo-North No of Registered Electors 54149 NA