Bill-level vote tallies from plenary sessions of the 20th through 22nd Korean National Assembly (2016-2026). Each row represents one bill that went to a recorded floor vote.
Format
A data frame with 7,997 rows and 13 variables:
- bill_id
Unique bill identifier (links to
bills$bill_id)- bill_no
Numeric bill number
- bill_name
Full bill title in Korean
- assembly
Assembly number (20, 21, or 22)
- committee
Standing committee to which the bill was referred
- vote_date
Date of the plenary vote
- result
Vote outcome in Korean (e.g., passed as-is, passed with amendments, rejected)
- bill_type
Type of bill (e.g., legislation, budget, resolution)
- total_members
Total number of assembly members at the time
- voted
Number of members who cast a vote
- yes
Number of yes votes
- no
Number of no votes
- abstain
Number of abstentions
Details
Not all bills go to a floor vote. Most bills are disposed of in
committee or expire at the end of the assembly term. The votes
dataset captures only those that reached the plenary floor for a
recorded vote.
About 40\
because bills only contains legislator-proposed bills while
votes also includes committee alternatives, budget bills,
and resolutions that have separate identifiers.
See roll_calls for member-level voting records
(22nd assembly), useful for ideal point estimation or party
discipline analysis.
Examples
data(votes)
# Votes per assembly
table(votes$assembly)
#>
#> 20 21 22
#> 3492 3272 1286
# Pass rate
table(votes$result)
#>
#> 부결 수정가결 원안가결
#> 26 2688 5336
# Average yes rate
votes$yes_rate <- votes$yes / votes$voted
summary(votes$yes_rate)
#> Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
#> 0.006369 0.961690 0.983784 0.961513 0.994143 1.000000
# Contentious votes (yes rate < 70%)
contentious <- votes[votes$yes / votes$voted < 0.7, ]
nrow(contentious)
#> [1] 144