POLPAN voting flows

Voting choices across three consecutive Polish parliamentary elections (2007, 2011, 2015) reported by respondents of the Polish Panel Study (POLPAN). Each row represents a unique combination of voting choices and gives the number of respondents with that pattern.

Usage

data(Polpan)

Format

A data frame with 51 rows and 4 columns:

party2007

Party voted for in the 2007 parliamentary election.

party2011

Party voted for in the 2011 parliamentary election.

party2015

Party voted for in the 2015 parliamentary election.

n

Number of respondents with this combination of voting choices.

Each of the partyXXXX columns takes one of the following values: "PO" (Civic Platform / Platforma Obywatelska), "PiS" (Law and Justice / Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc), "PSL" (Polish People's Party / Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe), "Left" (left-wing parties), "Other", or "not voted".

Source

Polish Panel Study (POLPAN, https://www.polpan.org), Marta Kołczyńska (https://martakolczynska.com/) and her blog post.

Examples

# color palette
p <- c("#E41A1C", "#377EB8", "#4DAF4A", "#984EA3", 
    "#FF7F00", "#FFFF33")

# How did the 2007 voters vote in subsequent elections?
alluvial(
    Polpan[,1:3],
    freq = Polpan$n,
    col = p[match(Polpan$party2007, sort(unique(Polpan$party2007)))]
)


# Remove flows with freqs less than 10
alluvial(
    Polpan[,1:3],
    freq = Polpan$n,
    col = p[match(Polpan$party2007, sort(unique(Polpan$party2007)))],
    hide = Polpan$n < 5
)



# How did the 2015 voters vote in preceding elections?
alluvial(
    Polpan[,1:3],
    freq = Polpan$n,
    col = p[match(Polpan$party2015, sort(unique(Polpan$party2007)))],
    hide = Polpan$n < 5
)