Results of the Sri Lankan presidential election held in 2015, extracted from PDF result tables and prepared as Election2015.
Usage
data(Election2015)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 or recalculated percentage on a 0–100 scale. The denominator depends on the row type. 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
Nineteen candidates contested this election.
Missing counts and their associated percentages were replaced with zero. The missing turnout percentage for Rambukkana in Kegalle was calculated using total polled votes and registered electors.
District totals and their component results are both included. These reporting levels should be analysed separately to avoid double-counting.
Examples
data(Election2015)
Election2015[Election2015$District == "Colombo" & Election2015$Electorate == "Colombo-North", ]
#> # A tibble: 23 × 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Percentage
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 2015 Colombo Colombo-North Aithurus Mohamed Illias 59 0.09
#> 2 2015 Colombo Colombo-North Ibrahim Miflar 90 0.13
#> 3 2015 Colombo Colombo-North Prasanna Priyankara 15 0.02
#> 4 2015 Colombo Colombo-North Wimal Geeganage 9 0.01
#> 5 2015 Colombo Colombo-North Sirithunga Jayasuriya 50 0.07
#> 6 2015 Colombo Colombo-North M. B. Theminimulla 17 0.02
#> 7 2015 Colombo Colombo-North Pani Wijesiriwardane 29 0.04
#> 8 2015 Colombo Colombo-North Duminda Nagamuwa 39 0.06
#> 9 2015 Colombo Colombo-North Panagoda Don Prince Soloman An… 101 0.15
#> 10 2015 Colombo Colombo-North Maithripala Sirisena 51537 75.1
#> # ℹ 13 more rows