Download data on the candidates' background in federal elections

candidate_fed() downloads and aggregates the data on the candidates' background who competed in the federal elections in Brazil. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a candidate.

Usage

candidate_fed(
  year,
  uf = "all",
  br_archive = FALSE,
  encoding = "latin1",
  temp = TRUE
)

Arguments

year: Election year. For this function, only the years 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 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 recovers only electoral data for presidential elections, absent in other files).
encoding: Data original encoding (defaults to 'latin1'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.
temp: (logical). elections_rda

Value

candidate_local() returns a data.frame

Details

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

Note

For the elections prior to 2002, some information can be incomplete. For the 2014, 2018, and 2022 elections, more variables are available.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
df <- candidate_fed(2000)
} # }