Number of Coded Legislators (upper house)

QoG code: jw_legsize2

The number of legislators coded in the dataset. These may not account for the total number of legislators if there are appointed legislators that have no electoral rules to code.

Dataset
Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote
Type of variable
Discrete
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-12-19
Last updated by source
2012-03-24

Categories

Political Parties and Elections

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Standard Time-series - 2026 Original dataset
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series 31
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1978-2005

Country coverage

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  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Czech Republic
  • Dominican Republic
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • Nigeria
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Thailand
  • United States

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1978 to 2005.