DataSet

Visualize the “ Presidental Election”

  • About

    Every two years, the Commission publishes Federal Elections, a compilation of the official, certified federal election results obtained from each state’s election office and other official sources. The above links provide the primary, runoff and general election results for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and, when applicable, U.S. President

  • Data Source Link

    https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/electionresults.shtml

  • Data Size

    I pulled data on the 1984-2016 presidential elections from the Federal Elections Committee website at http://www.fec.gov. The size is 16 columns and 13436 rows.The dataset for map is state-level, and the dataset for scatter plot is county-level; Since there are too may counties in the US, I filter the dataset from 2004 to 2016 for my scatter plot visualization.

  • Data license

    "This data is made available under the Federal Election Commission where full text can be found at: https://www.fec.gov/about/privacy-and-security-policy/"

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    Already sent emial to ask for liscence and they said there is official license for this dataset, as long as we are following the security policy, the dataset is allowed for website.

  • Column Description

    1. Candidate Name: The name of candiate.
    2. Party: in the US, there are only two parties considered by most voters - the Democrats (the liberal, left-of-centre party) and the Republicans (the conservative, right-of-centre party).
    3. Year: The year of presidental election
    4. Absolute Margin: The absolute value of margin of victory.
    5. Margin of victory: The percentage of the victory minus the percentage of failure side.
    6. Latitude: Latitude of the location, using the WGS84 projection.
    7. Longitude: Longitude of the location, using the WGS84 projection.
    8. Dpercentage: The voting percentage of Democrats party.
    9. Rpercentage: The voting percentage of Republic party.
    10. Winner: The winner party in a corresponding year
    11. Election votes: The number of votes which is related with the population of state.
    12. Control: To specify this state is control by which party.
    13. Abbrev: Abbrev for state like NY,FL,CA...
    14. Voter turnout: Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election.In this dataset age and citizenship status are the criteria used to determine eligibility.
    15. Num_dem(Num_rep): The number of people choose democrat/republic