polls_us_election_2016

R Documentation

Fivethirtyeight 2016 Poll Data

Description

Poll results from US 2016 presidential elections aggregated from HuffPost Pollster, RealClearPolitics, polling firms, and news reports. The dataset also includes election results (popular vote) and electoral college votes in results_us_election_2016.

Usage

polls_us_election_2016

Format

An object of class "data.frame".

Details

• state. State in which poll was taken. 'U.S' is for national polls.

• startdate. Poll's start date.

• enddate. Poll's end date.

• pollster. Pollster conducting the poll.

• grade. Grade assigned by fivethirtyeight to pollster.

• samplesize. Sample size.

• population. Type of population being polled.

• rawpoll_clinton. Percentage for Hillary Clinton.

• rawpoll_trump. Percentage for Donald Trump

• rawpoll_johnson. Percentage for Gary Johnson

• rawpoll_mcmullin. Percentage for Evan McMullin.

• adjpoll_clinton. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Hillary Clinton.

• ajdpoll_trump. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Donald Trump

• adjpoll_johnson. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Gary Johnson

• adjpoll_mcmullin. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Evan McMullin.

Source

The original csv file used to create polls_us_election_2016 is here: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/general-model/president_general_polls_2016.csv

The data for results_us_election_2016 is from Ballotpedia and can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zxyOQDjNOJS_UkzerorUCf2OAdcMcIQEwRciKuYBIZ4/pubhtml?widget=true&headers=false#gid=658726802/

Examples

head(polls_us_election_2016)