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Included Data Sets

JUDGEIT comes with data set ICSPR 6311, coded as house6311, containing the results for the U.S. House of Representatives from 1896 through 1992. It is formatted as a list of 49 data frames, each named for their election year, and containing six vectors:

• STATE, a numerical ICPSR state code for the state containing the district;

• DIST, a numerical indicator for the number of the district within the state;

• INC, an incumbency indicator, $-1$ for Republican and 1 for Democrat;

• VOTE, the share of the vote received by the Democratic candidate;

• TURNOUT, the number of votes for the two candidates combined, and

• DELSOUTH, an indicator for whether the district is located in the South.