partisan_lean_state

Format

A dataset with 50 rows representing states and 3 variables

state

the state

pvi_party

the party of the vote

pvi_amount

the Cook Partisan Voting Index of the vote

Source

Partisan lean is the average difference between how a state or district votes and how the country votes overall, with 2016 presidential election results weighted 50 percent, 2012 presidential election results weighted 25 percent and results from elections for the state legislature weighted 25 percent.

Note

The original dataset only has 2 columns: "state" and "pvi_538". I separated the "pvi_538" columns into two. For example, in row 1 of the dataset, the original "pvi_538" = "R+27", and I separated it into “pvi_party" = "R" and "pvi_amount" = "27".

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