election_candidates.Rd
Returns the name and party of all candidates standing in an election, for each constituency. Note that for general elections this can return a very large tibble with hundreds of variables.
election_candidates(ID = NULL, constit_details = FALSE, extra_args = NULL, tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake", verbose = TRUE) hansard_election_candidates(ID = NULL, constit_details = FALSE, extra_args = NULL, tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake", verbose = TRUE)
ID | Accepts an ID for a general or by-election from the 2010 General
Election onwards, and returns the results. If |
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constit_details | If |
extra_args | Additional parameters and queries to pass to API. These
queries must be strings and start with "&". See the
API documentation
or the package vignette for more details. Defaults to |
tidy | Logical parameter. If |
tidy_style | The style to convert variable names to, if
|
verbose | If |
# NOT RUN { x <- election_candidates(ID = 382037) y <- election_candidates() z <- election_candidates(constit_details = TRUE) # }