Results of the Sri Lankan presidential election held in 2024, extracted from PDF result tables using OCR and prepared as Election2024.
Usage
data(Election2024)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, where included.
- 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/.
Data extraction and preparation: https://github.com/Amalan-ConStat/PresidentialElection.
Details
The extracted result tables contain 38 candidate rows. Candidate numbering in the source tables skips number 4; no additional candidate row was inserted.
Extracted results were assembled in district-specific ODS workbooks, with separate sheets for polling divisions and postal votes, before conversion to the common six-column dataset format. Summary labels and selected district, electorate, and candidate spellings were standardised during preparation. Label capitalisation was preserved.
OCR values were checked against the source tables. Candidate vote counts were checked against total valid votes, and valid votes plus rejected votes were checked against votes polled. Printed percentages were retained rather than replaced with recalculated percentages. Printed dashes representing unavailable percentages were recorded as missing values.
Candidate vote percentages relate to valid votes. Valid-vote and rejected-vote percentages relate to votes polled. Turnout percentages relate to registered electors.
These tables record candidate votes and do not represent a separate count of second and third preferences.
Where district totals and their component results are both included, these reporting levels should be analysed separately to avoid double-counting.
Examples
data(Election2024)
Election2024[
Election2024$District == "Colombo" &
Election2024$Electorate == "Colombo-North",
]
#> # A tibble: 42 × 6
#> Year District Electorate ColNames Votes Percentage
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 2024 Colombo Colombo-North Akmeemana Dayarathana Thero 53 0.08
#> 2 2024 Colombo Colombo-North Abubakar Mohamed Infas 48 0.07
#> 3 2024 Colombo Colombo-North Siripala Amarasinghe 31 0.04
#> 4 2024 Colombo Colombo-North K. K. Piyadasa 183 0.26
#> 5 2024 Colombo Colombo-North Sarath Keerthirathna 43 0.06
#> 6 2024 Colombo Colombo-North K. A. Kularatna 9 0.01
#> 7 2024 Colombo Colombo-North K. R. Krishan 27 0.04
#> 8 2024 Colombo Colombo-North Palimulla Kapugamage Anura Sid… 13 0.02
#> 9 2024 Colombo Colombo-North Dilith Jayaweera 442 0.64
#> 10 2024 Colombo Colombo-North Siritunga Jayasuriya 22 0.03
#> # ℹ 32 more rows