Average District Magnitude (upper house)

QoG code: jw_mdist2

This is the average district magnitude in the upper house.

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

Categories

Political Parties and Elections

Find this variable in

Standard Time-series - 2026 Original dataset
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series 28
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
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Indonesia
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • Nigeria
  • Paraguay
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Thailand
  • United States

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1978 to 2005.