Electoral Volatility - Parties above 1% (2nd election in year)

QoG code: dev_altv2

Electoral volatility caused by vote switching between existing parties in a second election in the same year.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-11-26
Last updated by source
2025-11-03
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
OECD cross-section 2
OECD time-series 5
Dataset Available for years
OECD time-series 1953-2023

Country coverage

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  • Denmark
  • France (1963-)
  • Greece
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1946 to 2023.