electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-election-data-2004-presidential-results-28ba5782

Election Data - 2004 Presidential Results | Africa (Ghana official open data)

253 rows - 1 Africa country - 2004 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Ghana as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Election Data - 2004 Presidential Results
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: 2004 Presidential Results Data Sheet - Western Region
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
GHA	253	2004	2004	Ghana

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	3a58384e-4b3a-4899-98a0-5bc748c974ab:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2004
doctype_html_public_w3c_dtd_xhtml_rdfa_1_0_en	string	Source column.	"https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd">
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2004
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2004
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2004
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Election Data - 2004 Presidential Results
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	2004 Presidential Results Data Sheet - Western Region
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	8ed7f361-c050-4b6a-b118-44a25808fc15
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	3a58384e-4b3a-4899-98a0-5bc748c974ab
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/2004%20Presidential%20Results%20D
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-18T20:11:31Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-election-data-2004-presidential-results-28ba5782")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "GHA"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_ghana_election_data_2004_presidential_results_28ba5782_2004,
  title        = {Election Data - 2004 Presidential Results | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2004},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/election-data-2004-presidential-results},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-election-data-2004-presidential-results-28ba5782}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) Official government open data portal. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-18 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/2004%20Presidential%20Results%20Data%20Sheet%20-%20Western%20Region.csv