PresElectionResults

A data package for US Presidential election results.

All build details are available here, and are fully reproducible.

Installation

library(dplyr)

devtools::install_github("jaytimm/PresElectionResults")

Presidential Election Results via Britannica

PresElectionResults::pres_results |>
  tail() |> knitr::kable()

year	candidate	party	ec_votes	pop_votes	pop_per	ec_total
2016	Donald Trump	Republican	304	62984828	46.1	531
2016	Hillary Clinton	Democratic	227	65853514	48.2	531
2020	Joe Biden	Democratic	306	81283501	51.3	538
2020	Donald Trump	Republican	232	74223975	46.8	538
2024	Donald Trump	Republican	312	77302580	49.8	538
2024	Kamala Harris	Democratic	226	75017613	48.3	538

Presidential election results by state (1864-2024) via Wikipedia

PresElectionResults::pres_by_state |>
  head() |> knitr::kable()

year	state_abbrev	winner	party_win	democrat	other	republican
1864	CA	Abraham Lincoln	republican	41.40	NA	58.60
1864	DE	George B. McClellan	democrat	51.80	NA	48.20
1864	IA	Abraham Lincoln	republican	36.92	NA	63.08
1864	IL	Abraham Lincoln	republican	45.60	NA	54.40
1864	IN	Abraham Lincoln	republican	46.50	NA	53.50
1864	KS	Abraham Lincoln	republican	18.30	NA	81.70

Presidential election results by county (2000-2024) via MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL)

PresElectionResults::pres_by_county |>
  head() |> knitr::kable()

year	state_abbrev	county_name	GEOID	winner	party_win	democrat	republican
2000	AL	Autauga	01001	George W. Bush	republican	28.7	69.7
2000	AL	Baldwin	01003	George W. Bush	republican	24.8	72.4
2000	AL	Barbour	01005	Al Gore	democrat	49.9	49.0
2000	AL	Bibb	01007	George W. Bush	republican	38.2	60.2
2000	AL	Blount	01009	George W. Bush	republican	27.7	70.5
2000	AL	Bullock	01011	Al Gore	democrat	69.2	29.2

Presidential election results by congressional district (2024)

PresElectionResults::pres_by_cd |>
  head() |> knitr::kable()

state_abbrev	district_code	house_rep	house_rep_party	winner	party_win	democrat	republican	icpsr
AK	00	Nick Begich	republican	Donald Trump	republican	41.41	54.54	21178
AL	01	Barry Moore	republican	Donald Trump	republican	21.89	76.94	22140
AL	02	Shomari Figures	democrat	Kamala Harris	democrat	53.52	45.31	21926
AL	03	Mike Rogers	republican	Donald Trump	republican	26.18	72.71	20301
AL	04	Robert B. Aderholt	republican	Donald Trump	republican	15.96	83.02	29701
AL	05	Dale W. Strong	republican	Donald Trump	republican	34.20	64.02	22366

Equal-area simple feature geometries via The Downballot

library(sf)
library(ggplot2)
PresElectionResults::xsf_TileOutv10 %>% 
  ggplot() + 
  geom_sf(aes(fill = state),
           color = 'white') +
  geom_sf(data = PresElectionResults::xsf_TileInv10, 
          fill = NA, 
          show.legend = F, 
          color="gray", 
          lwd=.5) +
  
  geom_sf_text(data = PresElectionResults::xsf_TileInv10,
                          aes(label = state_abbrev),
                          size = 3,
                          color='black') +
  ##scale_fill_distiller(palette = "RdBu", direction=-1) +
  theme_minimal()+
  theme(axis.text.x=element_blank(),
        axis.text.y=element_blank(),
        axis.title.x=element_blank(),
        axis.title.y=element_blank(),
        legend.position = 'none') +
labs(title = "Equal-area US State geometry",
     caption = "Source: The Downballot")

FRED Historical Population Data (1900-2026)

PresElectionResults::fred_pop_by_state |>
  head()|>
  knitr::kable()

year	state_abbrev	NAME	population
1900	AL	Alabama	1830000
1900	AK	Alaska	NA
1900	AZ	Arizona	124000
1900	AR	Arkansas	1314000
1900	CA	California	1490000
1900	CO	Colorado	543000