Variable: Average District Magnitude (lower/only house)

QoG Code: (jw_mdist)


Dataset: Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote

Description:

This is the standard magnitude of the average district in the lower house. For example: A country with 300 seats divided among one national district with 200 members and 100 single-member districts would have an average district magnitude (jw_mdist) of 2.97 (i.e., 300/101).

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2022-12-07
Last updated by source: 2012-03-24


Categories:

Political Parties and Elections


Find this variable in:

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

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 160
OECD time-series: 39


This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 1978 to the year 2005