Election results for the 2010 U.S. Senate races

Usage

senaterace10

Format

A data frame with 38 observations on the following 23 variables.

id: Unique identifier for the race, which does not overlap with other 2010 races (see govrace10 and houserace10)
state: State name
abbr: State name abbreviation
name1: Name of the winning candidate
perc1: Percentage of vote for winning candidate (if more than one candidate)
party1: Party of winning candidate
votes1: Number of votes for winning candidate
name2: Name of candidate with second most votes
perc2: Percentage of vote for candidate who came in second
party2: Party of candidate with second most votes
votes2: Number of votes for candidate who came in second
name3: Name of candidate with third most votes
perc3: Percentage of vote for candidate who came in third
party3: Party of candidate with third most votes
votes3: Number of votes for candidate who came in third
name4: Name of candidate with fourth most votes
perc4: Percentage of vote for candidate who came in fourth
party4: Party of candidate with fourth most votes
votes4: Number of votes for candidate who came in fourth
name5: Name of candidate with fifth most votes
perc5: Percentage of vote for candidate who came in fifth
party5: Party of candidate with fifth most votes
votes5: Number of votes for candidate who came in fifth

Source

MSNBC.com, retrieved 2010-11-09.

Examples


library(ggplot2)

ggplot(senaterace10, aes(x = perc1)) +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 5) +
  labs(x = "Winning candidate vote percentage")
#> Warning: Removed 1 row containing non-finite outside the scale range (`stat_bin()`).