Phrase majoritarian election's candidate(s)

Assembles one or more majoritarian election candidate strings consisting of the candidate's first name, last name and optionally political party (in parentheses).

Usage

phrase_election_candidate(
  ballot_date = pal::pkg_config_val("ballot_date"),
  lvl = lvls(ballot_date, canton, ballot_type = "election"),
  canton = cantons(ballot_date),
  election_nr = 1L,
  candidate_nrs = NULL,
  incl_party = TRUE
)

Arguments

ballot_date

FOKUS-covered ballot date. One of

• "2018-09-23"

• "2018-11-25"

• "2019-10-20"

• "2020-09-27"

• "2020-10-18"

• "2021-11-28"

• "2023-06-18"

• "2024-10-20"

lvl

Political level. One of "cantonal" or "federal".

canton

FOKUS-covered canton name. One of

• "aargau"

election_nr

Election number. A positive integerish scalar.

candidate_nrs

Election candidate numbers to include. A vector of positive integers or NULL. If NULL, all candidates will be included.

incl_party

Whether or not to include the candidate's political party in the resulting string (in parentheses).

Value

A character vector.

See also

Other text phrasing functions: phrase(), phrase_date(), phrase_proposal_name_de()

Examples

fokus::phrase_election_candidate(ballot_date = "2019-10-20",
                                 lvl = "cantonal",
                                 canton = "aargau",
                                 candidate_nrs = 1:3)
#> [1] "Jean-Pierre Gallati (SVP)" "Yvonne Feri (SP)"          "Jeanine Glarner (FDP)"