The fourth presidential election of Sri Lanka was held in 1999. Its results are published as a pdf file. The data available in this file is scraped and summarised as a data-frame Election1999.
Usage
data(Election1999)Format
A data frame with 6 columns and 3446 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 1999 thirteen candidates participated in this election and Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumarathunga became the executive president for the second time.
Examples
Election1999[Election1999$District == "Colombo" & Election1999$Electorate == "Colombo-North",]
#> # A tibble: 17 x 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Perce~1
#> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Abdul Rasool 163 0.31
#> 2 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Alwis Weerakkody Premawardhana 11 0.02
#> 3 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Ariyawansha Dissanayaka 14 0.03
#> 4 1999 Colombo Colombo-North M.D. Nandana Gunathilaka 1281 2.41
#> 5 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Kamal Karunadasa 46 0.09
#> 6 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga 18114 34.1
#> 7 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Tennyson Edirisuriya 86 0.16
#> 8 1999 Colombo Colombo-North W.V.M. Ranjith 95 0.18
#> 9 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Ranil Wickramasinghe 32714 61.5
#> 10 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Rajiva Wijesinha 94 0.18
#> 11 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Vasudeva Nanayakkara 408 0.77
#> 12 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Hudson Samarasinghe 26 0.05
#> 13 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Harishchandra Wijayatunga 115 0.22
#> 14 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Total No of Valid Votes 53167 97.4
#> 15 1999 Colombo Colombo-North No of Rejected Votes 1409 2.58
#> 16 1999 Colombo Colombo-North Total No of Votes Polled 54576 70.5
#> 17 1999 Colombo Colombo-North No of Registered Electors 77447 NA
#> # ... with abbreviated variable name 1: Percentage