GermanExtraSeats {GmooG}R Documentation

Extra seats at German elections from 1949 to 2021

Description

Numbers of extra seats (Ueberhangmandate and Ausgleichsmandate) needed to satisfy the German election rules

Usage

data(GermanExtraSeats)

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on these 2 variables.

Year

Election year

Number

Number of extra seats needed

Details

This dataset is used in Chapter 26, "German Election 2021–what happened?".

Source

German election results from https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de

Examples

data(GermanExtraSeats, package="GmooG")
library(tidyverse)
ggplot(GermanExtraSeats, aes(Year, Number)) + geom_line()

[Package GmooG version 0.7 Index]