Download data on federal election coalitions in Brazil

legend_fed() downloads and aggregates the data on the party denomination (coalitions or parties) from the federal elections in Brazil, disaggregated bi cities. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a city.

legend_fed(year, uf = "all", br_archive = FALSE, ascii = FALSE,
  encoding = "latin1", export = FALSE)

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 are available.
uf

Federation Unit acronym (character vector).
br_archive

In the TSE's data repository, some results can be obtained for the whole country by loading a single within a single file by setting this argument to TRUE (may not work in for some elections and, in other, it recoverns only electoral data for presidential elections, absent in other files).
ascii

(logical). Should the text be transformed from Latin-1 to ASCII format?
encoding

Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.
export

(logical). Should the downloaded data be saved in .dta and .sav in the current directory?

Value

legend_fed() returns a data.frame with the following variables:

  • DATA_GERACAO: Generation date of the file (when the data was collected).

  • HORA_GERACAO: Generation time of the file (when the data was collected), Brasilia Time.

  • ANO_ELEICAO: Election year.

  • NUM_TURNO: Round number.

  • DESCRICAO_ELEICAO: Description of the election.

  • SIGLA_UF: Units of the Federation's acronym in which occurred the election.

  • SIGLA_UE: Units of the Federation's acronym (In case of major election is the FU's acronym in which the candidate runs for (text) and in case of municipal election is the municipal's Supreme Electoral Court code (number)). Assume the special values BR, ZZ and VT to designate, respectively, Brazil, Overseas and Absentee Ballot.

  • NOME_UE: Electoral Unit name.

  • CODIGO_CARGO: Code of the position that the candidate runs for.

  • DESCRICAO_CARGO: Description of the position that the candidate runs for.

  • TIPO_LEGENDA: It informs it the candidate runs for 'coalition' or 'isolated party'.

  • NUM_PARTIDO: Party number.

  • SIGLA_PARTIDO: Party acronym.

  • NOME_PARTIDO: Party name.

  • SIGLA_COLIGACAO: Coalition's acronym.

  • CODIGO_COLIGACAO: Coalition's code.

  • COMPOSICAO_COLIGACAO: Coalition's composition.

  • SEQUENCIAL_COLIGACAO: Coalition's sequential number, generated internally by the electoral justice.

  • SIGLA_COLIGACAO: Coalition's acronym.

Details

If export is set to TRUE, the downloaded data is saved as .dta and .sav files in the current directory.

Note

For elections prior to 2002, some information can be incomplete.

See also

legend_local for local elections in Brazil.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
df <- legend_fed(2002)
# }