US Voter Turnout Data. — voter

State-level data on federal elections held in November between 1980 and 2014.

Usage

voter_count

Format

A data frame with 936 rows and 7 variables.

year: Year election was held.
region: Specifies if data is state or national total.
voting_eligible_population: Number of citizens eligible to vote; does not count felons.
total_ballots_counted: Number of ballots cast.
highest_office: Number of ballots that contained a vote for the highest office of that election.
percent_total_ballots_counted: Overall voter turnout percentage.
percent_highest_office: Highest office voter turnout percentage.

Source

United States Election Project

Examples


library(ggplot2)

ggplot(voter_count, aes(x = percent_highest_office, y = percent_total_ballots_counted)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(
    title = "Total Ballots V Highest Office",
    x = "Highest Office",
    y = "Total Ballots"
  )
#> Warning: Removed 223 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).