Results of the Sri Lankan presidential election held in 2010, extracted from PDF result tables and prepared as Election2010.
Usage
data(Election2010)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 where available, 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
Twenty-two candidates contested this election.
No additional corrections 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(Election2010)
Election2010[Election2010$District == "Colombo" & Election2010$Electorate == "Colombo-North", ]
#> # A tibble: 26 × 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Percentage
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 2010 Colombo Colombo-North Sarath Fonseka 42896 69.5
#> 2 2010 Colombo Colombo-North Mahinda Rajapaksha 17605 28.5
#> 3 2010 Colombo Colombo-North Channa Janaka Sugathsiri Gamage 222 0.36
#> 4 2010 Colombo Colombo-North Mohomad Cassim Mohomad Ismail 197 0.32
#> 5 2010 Colombo Colombo-North Vickramabahu Karunaratna 112 0.18
#> 6 2010 Colombo Colombo-North Panagoda Don Prince Soloman An… 99 0.16
#> 7 2010 Colombo Colombo-North Sarath Manamendra 89 0.14
#> 8 2010 Colombo Colombo-North M K Sivajilingam 86 0.14
#> 9 2010 Colombo Colombo-North Lal Perera 80 0.13
#> 10 2010 Colombo Colombo-North Achala Ashoka Suraweera 72 0.12
#> # ℹ 16 more rows