Download data on the candidates' background in local elections

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

Usage

candidate_local(year, uf = "all", encoding = "latin1", temp = TRUE)

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years of 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 are available.

uf

Federation Unit acronym (character vector).

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 with the following variables:

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 2000, some information can be incomplete.

Examples

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