Results of the Sri Lankan presidential election held in 2019, extracted from PDF result tables using OCR and prepared as Election2019.
Usage
data(Election2019)Format
A data frame with 6 columns.
- Year
Year of the presidential election.
- District
Electoral district name, aligned with the naming convention used in the earlier datasets.
- 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
Printed percentage on a 0–100 scale. Percentage proportions imported from ODS files were multiplied by 100 and rounded to two decimal places. 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
Thirty-five candidates contested this election.
Extracted results were assembled in ODS workbooks before conversion to the common six-column dataset format. Summary labels and selected district and electorate spellings were aligned with the earlier datasets. Label capitalisation was preserved.
The omitted Kilinochchi result table in the Jaffna PDF was supplemented. Four misplaced result tables were replaced: Colombo postal votes, Borella in Colombo, Kegalle postal votes, and Kolonna in Ratnapura.
Printed registered-elector discrepancies were retained and documented. Component totals exceeded district totals by 200 in Hambantota, 270 in Jaffna, 1 in Kalutara, and 1 in Ratnapura. These discrepancies concern registered electors rather than votes cast.
District totals and their component results are both included. These reporting levels should be analysed separately to avoid double-counting.
Examples
data(Election2019)
Election2019[Election2019$District == "Colombo" & Election2019$Electorate == "Colombo-North", ]
#> # A tibble: 39 × 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Percentage
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 2019 Colombo Colombo-North Aparakke Pungngananda Thero 55 0.08
#> 2 2019 Colombo Colombo-North S. Amarasinghe 97 0.13
#> 3 2019 Colombo Colombo-North Idroos Mohamdhu Illiyas 23 0.03
#> 4 2019 Colombo Colombo-North A. H. M. Alavi 15 0.02
#> 5 2019 Colombo Colombo-North Ariyawansha Dissanayake 193 0.27
#> 6 2019 Colombo Colombo-North P. M. Edirisinghe 8 0.01
#> 7 2019 Colombo Colombo-North Sarath Keerthirathne 15 0.02
#> 8 2019 Colombo Colombo-North Chandrasekara Herath Hitihami … 5 0.01
#> 9 2019 Colombo Colombo-North Sirithunga Jayasuriya 9 0.01
#> 10 2019 Colombo Colombo-North Ajantha De Zoysa 41 0.06
#> # ℹ 29 more rows