Seats from a National District (upper house)

QoG code: jw_propn2

This is the proportion of coded legislators that are elected via a national tier. This is often (but not always) similar to the proportion elected via multi-member districts (jw_propmmd): some electoral systems have proportional representation based on regional multimember districts as well as national tiers (e.g. Hungary).

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-12-19
Last updated by source
2012-03-24
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series 65
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1978-2005

Country coverage

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  • Afghanistan
  • Algeria
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Benin
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Dominican Republic
  • Eswatini (former Swaziland)
  • France (1963-)
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Malaysia (1966-)
  • Malta
  • Mauritania
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Namibia
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan (1971-)
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1978 to 2005.