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Electoral returns, selected constituencies, 1992 general election for the British House of Commons

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A data frame with 521 observations on the following 12 variables.

constituency

a character vector, name of the House of Commons constituency

county

a character vector, county of the House of Commons constituency

y1

a numeric vector, log-odds of Conservative to LibDem vote share

y2

a numeric vector, log-odds of Labor to LibDem vote share

y1lag

a numeric vector, y1 from previous election

y2lag

a numeric vector, y2 from previous election

coninc

a numeric vector, 1 if the incumbent is a Conservative, 0 otherwise

labinc

a numeric vector, 1 if the incumbent is from the Labor Party, 0 otherwise

libinc

a numeric vector, 1 if the incumbent is from the LibDems, 0 otherwise

v1

a numeric vector, Conservative vote share (proportion of 3 party vote)

v2

a numeric vector, Labor vote share (proportion of 3 party vote)

v3

a numeric vector, LibDem vote share (proportion of 3 party vote)

Details

These data span only 521 of the 621 seats in the House of Commons at the time of 1992 election. Seats missing either a Conservative, Labor, or a LibDem candidate appear to have been dropped.

The original Katz and King data set does not have case labels. I used matches to an additional data source to recover a set of constituency labels for these data; labels could not recovered for two of the constituencies.

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Source

Jonathan Katz; Gary King. 1999. "Replication data for: A Statistical Model of Multiparty Electoral Data", http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/QIGTWZYTLZ

References

Katz, Jonathan and Gary King. 1999. “A Statistical Model for Multiparty Electoral Data”. American Political Science Review. 93(1): 15-32.

Jackman, Simon. 2009. Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences. Wiley: Chichester. Example 6.9.

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/1992_United_Kingdom_electoral_returns_1330_33.csv")

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