Variable: Presidential Electoral System Type
QoG Code: (gol_pest)
Description:
This is a categorical variable that indicates the electoral formula used in the presidential election.
- Plurality
- Absolute Majority
- Qualified Majority
- Electoral College
- Alternative Vote
Type of variable: Categorical
Downloaded by QoG on: 2025-12-03
Last updated by source: 2022-12-21
Categories:
Political Parties and Elections
Find this variable in:
Standard Cross-section - 2026
Standard Time-series - 2026
Original Dataset
Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
| Dataset |
No. Countries |
| Standard cross-section: |
84 |
| Standard time-series: |
84 |
This variable has information for these countries:
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- Argentina
- Armenia
- Austria
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chile
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cyprus (1975-)
- Czech Republic
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Finland
- France (1963-)
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea-Bissau
- Honduras
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea, South
- Kyrgyzstan
- Liberia
- Lithuania
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Palau
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Zambia
This variable has information from the year 1946 to the
year 2020