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: 2023-11-23
Last updated by source: 2015-05-20


Categories:

Political Parties and Elections


Find this variable in:

Basic Time-series - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic time-series: 169
Standard time-series: 169
OECD time-series: 38

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

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