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Download data on candidate electoral results in local elections in Brazil by electoral section

Source: R/vote_section_local.R
vote_section_local.Rd

vote_section_local() downloads and cleans data on the verification of local elections in Brazil, disaggregated by electoral section. Different from other electionsBR's functions, results are only extract for individual states, one at a time. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to an electoral section in a given Brazilian state.

Usage

vote_section_local(year, uf = "AC", encoding = "latin1", temp = TRUE)

Arguments

year

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

uf

Federation Unit acronym (character vector). Defaults to 'AC' (Acre).

encoding

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

temp

(logical). If TRUE, keep the temporary compressed file for future use (recommended)

Value

vote_section_local() returns a data.frame.

Details

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

Note

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

Examples

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