Toronto election data

As with any analytical project, we invested significant time in obtaining and integrating data for our neighbourhood-level modeling. The Toronto Open Data portal provides detailed election results for the 2003, 2006, and 2010 elections, which is a great resource. But, they are saved as Excel files with a separate worksheet for each ward. This is not an ideal format for working with R.

We've taken the Excel files for the mayoral-race results and converted them into a data package for R called toVotes. This package includes the votes received by ward and area for each mayoral candidate in each of the last three elections.

If you're interested in analyzing Toronto's elections, we hope you find this package useful. We're also happy to take suggestions (or code contributions) on the GitHub page.