IMS Election

Datasets containing anonymized votes for a past Council election of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The dataset ims_election is the original dataset used with single transferable vote, where candidate names have been changed.

Usage

data(ims_election)

Format

A data frame with 620 observations and 10 candidates (names were made up). Each record corresponds to one ballot. The IMS Council voting is done using the STV method, and thus the ims_election dataset contains ballots with candidates being ranked between 1 and 10 with zeros allowed.