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Election results for the 2010 U.S. House of Represenatives races

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• id - Unique identifier for the race, which does not overlap with other 2010 races (see govrace10 and senaterace10)

• state - State name

• abbr - State name abbreviation

• num - District number for the state

• 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

Details

This analysis in the Examples section was inspired by and is similar to that of Nate Silver's district-level analysis on the FiveThirtyEight blog in the New York Times: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/2010-an-aligning-election

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Source

Data was collected from MSNBC.com on November 9th, 2010

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