ca2006 {pscl} | R Documentation |
Election returns and identifying information, California's 53 congressional districts in the 2006 Congresisonal elections.
data(ca2006)
A data frame with 53 observations on the following 11 variables.
district
D
R
Other
IncParty
D
or R
IncName
NA
if no incumbent runningopen
TRUE
if no incumbent runningcontested
TRUE
if both major parties
ran candidatesBush2004
Kerry2004
Other2004
Bush2000
Gore2000
2006 data from the California Secretary of State's web site, http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/all.htm (last updated Tuesday November 14, 2006). 2004 and 2000 presidential vote in congressional districts from the 2006 Almanac of American Politics.
Michael Baraon and Richard E. Cohen. 2006. The Almanac of American Politics, 2006. National Journal Group: Washington, D.C.
data(ca2006) ## 2006 CA congressional vote against 2004 pvote y <- ca2006$D/(ca2006$D+ca2006$R) x <- ca2006$Kerry2004/(ca2006$Kerry2004+ca2006$Bush2004) pch <- rep(19,length(y)) pch[ca2006$open] <- 1 col <- rep("black",length(y)) col[11] <- "red" ## Pembo (R) loses to McNerney (D) plot(y~x,pch=pch, col=col, xlim=range(x,y,na.rm=TRUE), ylim=range(x,y,na.rm=TRUE), xlab="Kerry Two-Party Vote, 2004", ylab="Democratic Two-Party Vote Share, 2006") abline(0,1) abline(h=.5,lty=2) abline(v=.5,lty=2) legend(x="topleft", bty="n", col=c("red","black","black"), pch=c(19,19,1), legend=c("Seat Changing Hands", "Seat Retained by Incumbent Party", "Open Seat (no incumbent running)") )