R Dataset / Package vcd / Bundestag2005
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Bundestag2005 data set which pertains to Votes in German Bundestag Election 2005. The Bundestag2005 data set is found in the vcd R package. You can load the Bundestag2005 data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Bundestag2005"). This will load the data into a variable called Bundestag2005. If R says the Bundestag2005 data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("vcd") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Bundestag2005 R data set. The size of this file is about 789 bytes.
Votes in German Bundestag Election 2005
Description
Number of votes by province in the German Bundestag election 2005 (for the parties that eventually entered the parliament).
Usage
data("Bundestag2005")
Format
A 2-way "table" giving the number of votes for each party (Fraktion) in each of the 16 German provinces (Bundesland):
| No | Name | Levels |
| 1 | Bundesland | Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, ... |
| 2 | Fraktion | SPD, CDU/CSU, Gruene, FDP, Linke |
Details
In the election for the German parliament “Bundestag”, five parties obtained enough votes to enter the parliament: the social democrats SPD, the conservative CDU/CSU, the liberal FDP, the green party “Die Gruenen” and the leftist party “Die Linke”. The table Bundestag2005 gives the number of votes for each party (Fraktion) in each of the 16 German provinces (Bundesland). The provinces are ordered from North to South.
The data have been obtained from the German statistical office (Statistisches Bundesamt) from the Web page given below.
Note that the number of seats in the parliament cannot be computed from the number of votes alone. The examples below show the distribution of seats that resulted from the election.
Source
Der Bundeswahlleiter, Statistisches Bundesamt. http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/de/bundestagswahlen/fruehere_bundestagswahlen/btw2005.html
Examples
library(colorspace)
## The outcome of the election in terms of seats in the
## parliament was:
seats <- structure(c(226, 61, 54, 51, 222),
.Names = c("CDU/CSU", "FDP","Linke", "Gruene", "SPD"))## Hues are chosen as metaphors for the political parties
## CDU/CSU: blue, FDP: yellow, Linke: purple, Gruene: green, SPD: red
## using the respective hues from a color wheel with
## chroma = 60 and luminance = 75
parties <- rainbow_hcl(6, c = 60, l = 75)[c(5, 2, 6, 3, 1)]
names(parties) <- names(seats)
parties## The pie chart shows that neither the SPD+Gruene coalition nor
## the opposition of CDU/CSU+FDP could assemble a majority.
## No party would enter a coalition with the leftists, leading to a
## big coalition.
pie(seats, clockwise = TRUE, col = parties)## The regional distribution of the votes, stratified by province,
## is shown in a mosaic display: first for the 10 Western then the
## 6 Eastern provinces.
data("Bundestag2005")
votes <- Bundestag2005[c(1, 3:5, 9, 11, 13:16, 2, 6:8, 10, 12),
c("CDU/CSU", "FDP", "SPD", "Gruene", "Linke")]
mosaic(votes, gp = gpar(fill = parties[colnames(votes)]),
spacing = spacing_highlighting, labeling = labeling_left,
labeling_args = list(rot_labels = c(0, 90, 0, 0), pos_labels = "center",
just_labels = c("center","center","center","right"), varnames = FALSE),
margins = unit(c(2.5, 1, 1, 12), "lines"),
keep_aspect_ratio = FALSE)
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.
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