A data frame containing information about the 2016 US Presidential Election for the state of Iowa.
Format
A data frame with 1386 observations on the following 5 variables.
- office
The office that the candidates were running for.
- candidate
President/Vice President pairs who were running for office.
- party
Political part of the candidate.
- county
County in Iowa where the votes were cast.
- votes
Number of votes received by the candidate.
Examples
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
plot_data <- iowa |>
filter(candidate != "Total") |>
group_by(candidate) |>
summarize(total_votes = sum(votes) / 1000)
ggplot(plot_data, aes(total_votes, candidate)) +
geom_col() +
theme_minimal() +
labs(
title = "2016 Presidential Election in Iowa",
subtitle = "Popular vote",
y = "",
x = "Number of Votes (in thousands)
"
)
