euro_elections: PARLGOV Dataset on European elections

euro_electionsR Documentation

PARLGOV Dataset on European elections

Description

Data on European election results, by political party. The variables are as follows:

Usage

data(euro_elections)

Format

A (tibble) data frame with 8,947 rows and 8 variables.

Details

  • country. Country.

  • election. Type of election – 'parliament' or 'ep' election.

  • date. Date the election took place. If the election lasted for several days, we code the last date.

  • party. Name of party.

  • party_id. Party ID.

  • vote_share. percentage of votes for a party.

  • seats. number of seats won by party. Seats coded for alliance members if information available. Coded as 0 for parties that won no seats and as missing value for electoral alliances if seats are coded at the level of alliance members.

  • total_seats. total number of seats.

Source

Döring, Holger, Constantin Huber, Philip Manow, Maike Hesse and Alexandra Quaas. 2023. Parliaments and governments database (ParlGov): Information on parties, elections and cabinets in established democracies.


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