2020 US Presidential Election Results: Map of Electoral Votes

This repository contains code in R to replicate the following graphic:

Source

• Title: Presidential Election Results 2020

• Author(s): Unknown

• Date: Nov 3, 2020

• From: New York Times

• URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-president.html

• PDF: 2020-Presidential-Election-Results-Map2-NYT.pdf

Data

This repository contains the following three data sets (in CSV format) stored in the data/ folder of this repository:

1) Presidential Election Returns

County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2020. This table is in the CSV file countypres_2020-2020.csv. In turn, the data dictionary (i.e. codebook) is in the markdown file County-Presidential-Returns-2000-2020.md.

Source: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ

Citation: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, 2018, “County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2020”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ, Harvard Dataverse, V13

2) Data table for plotting the tiles map of electoral votes

This is a curated table in the CSV file electoral-votes-tiles-map.csv that provides the data frame to be used for graphing the tiles (i.e. electoral votes map).

3) Data table for adding state labels on tiles map

This is a curated table in the CSV file states-labels-coords.csv that provides a data frame to be used for displaying the names of the States on the tiles map.