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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

R Dataset Upload:

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

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Election_results_for_the_2010_U_S.csv")

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