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

Description

houserace10

A data frame with 435 observations on the following 24 variables.

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

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: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/2010-an-aligning-election/

MSNBC.com, retrieved 2010-11-09.