Presidential Election 2015 — Election2015 • SLPresElection

The seventh presidential election of Sri Lanka was held in 2015. Its results are published as a pdf file. The data available in this file is scraped and summarised as a data-frame Election2015.

Usage

data(Election2015)

Format

A data frame with 6 columns and 4692 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 2015 nineteen candidates participated in this election and Maithripala Sirisena became the fifth executive president.

Examples

Election2015[Election2015$District == "Colombo" & Election2015$Electorate == "Colombo-North",]
#> # A tibble: 23 x 6
#>     Year District Electorate    ColNames                           Votes Perce~1
#>    <dbl> <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 Anura~   101    0.15
#> 10  2015 Colombo  Colombo-North Maithripala Sirisena               51537   75.1 
#> # ... with 13 more rows, and abbreviated variable name 1: Percentage