US presidential election 2016 precinct level results for Iowa

Precinct level results from the 2016 general election for all Iowa precincts. This data was modified from the data provided by MIT Election Data and Science Lab by focussing on Iowa precinct results from the general presidential election in 2016.

ia_election_2016

Format

A data frame with 36,960 rows and 15 variables:

year: Year of the election.
state: State of election (here, `Iowa`).
county_name: Name of the county.
county_fips: FIPS code of county.
county_ansi: ANSI code of the county.
jurisdiction: County of jurisdiction.
precinct: Precinct name
candidate: Name of the candidate
candidate_normalized: Normalized name of the candidate.
writein: Is candidate a write-in?
party: Party affiliation of the candidate.
mode: How was vote cast? Absentee or at Polling station.
votes: Number of votes cast in precinct.
candidate_fec: Federal Election identifier of the candidate's campaign.
candidate_fec_name: Name associated with the campaign.

Source

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LYWX3D

Author

MIT Election Data and Science Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Examples

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

ia_election_2016 %>%
  ggplot() +
    geom_bar(aes(x = candidate, weight = votes)) +
    coord_flip()