Results of the Sri Lankan presidential election held in 1988, extracted from PDF result tables and prepared as Election1988.
Usage
data(Election1988)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
Three candidates contested this election.
Preparation included selected percentage calculations for Trincomalee, Badulla, Kurunegala, and Baddegama in Galle. Postal registered-elector rows with missing counts were removed. Remaining missing counts and selected associated percentages 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(Election1988)
Election1988[Election1988$District == "Colombo" & Election1988$Electorate == "Colombo-North", ]
#> # A tibble: 7 × 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Percentage
#> <int> <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