The Effect of Household Income on the Outcome of Gubernatorial

Session Number

Project ID: BHVSO 05

Advisor(s)

Patrick Kearney; Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Start Date

22-4-2020 8:30 AM

End Date

22-4-2020 12:45 AM

Abstract

The purpose of this is to identify if there is a correlation between household income and gubernatorial elections, which could be useful for politicians that are wanting to know their chances based on past data. How I went about answering my research question was using previous gubernatorial election results in states in the Midwest, and analyzing the results using the programming language “R” to see if there was a correlation between the percentage of voters that voted democrat and the average income in a county, while also considering factors such as educational attainment in order to account for other observations that could also affect the outcome of my analysis. As of now, I do not have results yet.

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The Effect of Household Income on the Outcome of Gubernatorial

The purpose of this is to identify if there is a correlation between household income and gubernatorial elections, which could be useful for politicians that are wanting to know their chances based on past data. How I went about answering my research question was using previous gubernatorial election results in states in the Midwest, and analyzing the results using the programming language “R” to see if there was a correlation between the percentage of voters that voted democrat and the average income in a county, while also considering factors such as educational attainment in order to account for other observations that could also affect the outcome of my analysis. As of now, I do not have results yet.