Votes0103 {tapiR}R Documentation

Voting on House of Commons Divisions between June 2001 and July 2003

Description

A data frame

Usage

data(Votes0103)

Format

The votes are organized as a data frame data frame with 653 observations (MPs) on the following 658 variables (657 of which are divisions of the House).

party
a factor with levels Con DUP Ind IndCon LD Lab PC SDLP SNP UU
div001.010626
a factor with levels - n y
...
656 further such variables, ending with
div293.030716
a factor with levels - n y

Details

Some divisions have the additional factor level b, indicating that one or more MPs voted both Aye and No.

Note

Corresponding data for the 1992-1997 and 1997-2001 parliaments can be found at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~firth/tapiR/

Source

Derived, using get.divisions, from the online pages of the official Parliamentary record Hansard.

References

Firth, D and Spirling, A (2003) Divisions of the United Kingdom House of Commons, from 1992 to 2003 and beyond. Submitted for publication. At http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~firth/tapiR/.

Examples

data(Votes0103)

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