Variable: Electoral System

QoG Code: (iaep_es)


Dataset: Institutions and Elections Project Data

Description:

What is the type of electoral system for legislative elections?

  1. Plurality (First past the post)
  2. Majority
  3. Proportional representation
  4. Mixed systems (combination of PR and either plurality or majority). This option includes situations in which a single chamber contains seats selected by different methods, or situations in which all of the seats in a chamber are chosen with the same method, but each chamber is selected through different methods.

Source: IAEP (Wig et al., 2015)

Type of variable: Categorical

Downloaded by QoG on: 2024-11-13
Last updated by source: 2015-05-20


Categories:

Political Parties and Elections


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Basic Cross-section - 2025 Basic Time-series - 2025 OECD Time-series - 2025 Standard Time-series - 2025 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 0
Basic time-series: 161
Standard time-series: 161
OECD time-series: 30

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1960-2012
Basic time-series: 1960-2012
OECD time-series: 1960-2012

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This variable has information from the year 1960 to the year 2012