Divs0105 {tapiR}R Documentation

UK House of Commons Division Lists, 2001-2005

Description

A list, with one element for each parliamentary division in the second New Labour term of office. Not complete until that term of office ends! The names of those voting aye and no, as they appear in Hansard but with spelling and typographical errors corrected.

Usage

data(Divs0105)

Format

A list, each component of which corresponds to one House of Commons division. Each division is itself a list, with four components:

debate{Hansard's textual tag for the topic under debate. Character.} url
the URL for the Hansard page containing the division list. Character.
ayes
Character vector, the names of those voting AYE.
noes
Character vector, the names of those voting NO.

Details

Some corrections have been made (e.g., spellings) to the original Hansard lists.

Source

Hansard online. The URL is supplied for each division.

References

Firth, D and Spirling, A (2004) Divisions of the United Kingdom House of Commons, from 1992 to 2004 and beyond. Submitted for publication. At http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/tapir.

Examples

data(Divs0105)

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