Results of the Sri Lankan presidential election held in 1994, extracted from PDF result tables and prepared as Election1994.
Usage
data(Election1994)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 percentage on a 0–100 scale. The denominator depends on the row type. Missing values indicate percentages that were not supplied.
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.
Missing counts were replaced with zero during preparation. No additional count corrections or percentage recalculations were recorded in the correction section of the preparation script.
District totals and their component results are both included. These reporting levels should be analysed separately to avoid double-counting.
Examples
data(Election1994)
Election1994[Election1994$District == "Colombo" & Election1994$Electorate == "Colombo-North", ]
#> # A tibble: 10 × 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Percentage
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 1994 Colombo Colombo-North Mrs. Chandrika Bandaranaike Ku… 26250 61.6
#> 2 1994 Colombo Colombo-North Mr. Galappaththi Arachchige Ni… 75 0.2
#> 3 1994 Colombo Colombo-North Mrs. Vajira Srimathi Dissanaya… 15924 37.4
#> 4 1994 Colombo Colombo-North Mr. A.J. Ranashinge 103 0.2
#> 5 1994 Colombo Colombo-North Dr. Harischandra Wijayatunga 118 0.3
#> 6 1994 Colombo Colombo-North Mr. Hudson Samarasinghe 138 0.3
#> 7 1994 Colombo Colombo-North Total No of Valid Votes 42608 97.8
#> 8 1994 Colombo Colombo-North No of Rejected Votes 947 2.2
#> 9 1994 Colombo Colombo-North Total No of Votes Polled 43555 68.6
#> 10 1994 Colombo Colombo-North No of Registered Electors 63528 NA