Results of the Sri Lankan presidential election held in 1999, extracted from PDF result tables and prepared as Election1999.
Usage
data(Election1999)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
Thirteen candidates contested this election.
Postal registered-elector rows with missing counts were removed. 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(Election1999)
Election1999[Election1999$District == "Colombo" & Election1999$Electorate == "Colombo-North", ]
#> # A tibble: 17 × 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Percentage
#> <int> <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 Kumarat… 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