Presidential Election 1999

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.

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 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 × 6
#>     Year District Electorate    ColNames                        Votes Percentage
#>    <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 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