DC1912 {GmooG}R Documentation

Voting at the 1912 Democratic Convention

Description

The number of votes by each state for each candidate on each ballot for the Democratic nomination for president.

Usage

data(DC1912)

Format

A data frame with 3939 observations on the following 4 variables.

State

State or territory name (there were 52)

Candidate

Name of one of the 13 candidates or 'NotVoting'

Ballot

Ballot number (1 to 46)

Votes

Number of votes for the candidate on that ballot from the state

Details

Two other smaller datasets are used in combination with this one for the final plot of Chapter 4 (Figure 4.7), "Voting 46 times to choose a Presidential candidate", the estimated times of the ballots (DC1912ballots) and the adjournment times (DC1912adjourns).

Source

Woodson, Urey. 1912. Official Report of the Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention. Chicago: Peterson linotyping Company

Examples

data(DC1912, package="GmooG")
with(DC1912, table(State))

[Package GmooG version 0.7 Index]