Electoral Volatility - Parties below 1%

QoG code: dev_othv1

Electoral volatility caused by vote switching between parties falling below 1% of the national share in both the elections at time t and t+1. It is important to clarify that this category is not computed by aggregating the scores of each party falling below 1% and then comparing the overall sum at time t and t+1. Conversely, each party's volatility is counted separately - up to a specification of 0.1% - and then added to the calculation of dev_othv. This choice has been made to avoid underestimation of Total Volatility but at the same time to maintain a distinction between parties above 1% and parties below 1% for the calculation of the two components of dev_regv and dev_altv.

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
Standard cross-section 20
Standard time-series 20
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1946-2025

Country coverage

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  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Cyprus (1975-)
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1946 to 2025.