Results of the Sri Lankan presidential election held in 2005, extracted from PDF result tables and prepared as Election2005.
Usage
data(Election2005)Format
A data frame with 6 columns.
- Year
Year of the presidential election.
- District
Electoral district name.
- Electorate
Polling-division name, Postal District Votes, Displaced 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 or calculated percentage on a 0–100 scale. The denominator depends on the row type and reporting table. Missing values indicate percentages that were not supplied or calculated.
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.
Percentages were calculated for district totals, postal votes, and displaced votes in Jaffna, Vanni, and Trincomalee. Registered-elector rows were removed from postal and displaced-vote tables.
The preparation functions used total polled votes as the denominator for candidate, valid-vote, and rejected-vote percentages in these tables. District turnout was calculated using registered electors. Candidate percentages in these tables therefore represent shares of polled votes rather than shares of valid votes.
District totals and their component results are both included. These reporting levels should be analysed separately to avoid double-counting.
Examples
data(Election2005)
Election2005[Election2005$District == "Colombo" & Election2005$Electorate == "Colombo-North", ]
#> # A tibble: 17 × 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Percentage
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Wimal Geeganage 20 0.03
#> 2 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Chamil Jayaneththi 59 0.1
#> 3 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Ajith Kumara Jayaweera Arachch… 27 0.04
#> 4 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Siritunga Jayasuriya 270 0.45
#> 5 2005 Colombo Colombo-North P. Nelson Perera 5 0.01
#> 6 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Wije Dias 27 0.04
#> 7 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Anura De Silva 39 0.06
#> 8 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Aruna de Soyza 17 0.03
#> 9 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Mahinda Rajapaksha 14270 23.7
#> 10 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Ranil Wickramasinghe 45161 75.1
#> 11 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Achala Ashoka Suraweera 112 0.19
#> 12 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Victor Hettigoda 101 0.17
#> 13 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Hewaheenipallage Shantha Dharm… 3 0
#> 14 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Total No of Valid Votes 60111 98.5
#> 15 2005 Colombo Colombo-North No of Rejected Votes 939 1.54
#> 16 2005 Colombo Colombo-North Total No of Votes Polled 61050 71.0
#> 17 2005 Colombo Colombo-North No of Registered Electors 85967 NA