Presidential Election 1994 — Election1994 • SLPresElection

The third presidential election of Sri Lanka was held in 1994. Its results are published as a pdf file. The data available in this file is scraped and summarised as a data-frame Election1994.

Usage

data(Election1994)

Format

A data frame with 6 columns and 2040 rows.

Year: Year of the presidential election
District: District Names
Electorate: Electorate Names, Postal District Votes and Final District Results
ColNames: Candidate Names, Total No of Valid Votes, No of Rejected Votes, Total No of Votes Polled and No of Registered Electors
Votes: No of votes for the ColNames variable
Percentage: Percentage 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 1994 six candidates participated in this election and Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumarathunga became the third executive president.

Examples

Election1994[Election1994$District == "Colombo" & Election1994$Electorate == "Colombo-North",]
#> # A tibble: 10 x 6
#>     Year District Electorate    ColNames                           Votes Perce~1
#>    <dbl> <chr>    <chr>         <chr>                              <dbl>   <dbl>
#>  1  1994 Colombo  Colombo-North Mrs. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumar~ 26250    61.6
#>  2  1994 Colombo  Colombo-North Mr. Galappaththi Arachchige Nihal     75     0.2
#>  3  1994 Colombo  Colombo-North Mrs. Vajira Srimathi Dissanayake   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  
#> # ... with abbreviated variable name 1: Percentage