Variable: Seats from a National District (upper house)

QoG Code: (jw_propn2)


Dataset: Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote

Description:

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


Categories:

Political Parties and Elections


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Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 66


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