Party Control over Ballot - SMD (lower/only house)

QoG code: jw_smdballot

Ballot for single-member district tiers in elections to the lower house. The ballot variables focus on the amount of party control over candidates' access to a competitive position on the ballot. The variables equal (in order of increasing personal vote incentives): (0) where parties control access to ballots as well as the order in which individuals will fill the seats that the party wins (closed list multi-member districts, open list multi-member districts with little or no de facto change in list order); (1) where parties control access to the ballot, but not the order in which candidates will receive seats (open lists where intra-party preference votes seem to have a significant influence on which candidates are selected, and single-member districts where parties control access to the list); (2) where there are few or no impediments to individual candidates' ability to appear on the ballot (single-member districts where parties do not control access, e.g. allowing independent candidates and/or use primaries to select candidates).

Type of variable
Categorical
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 70
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1978-2005

Country coverage

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  • Albania
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belize
  • Bolivia
  • Botswana
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Chad
  • Comoros
  • Cuba
  • Fiji
  • France (1963-)
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Grenada
  • Guinea
  • Haiti
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Korea, North
  • Korea, South
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lesotho
  • Lithuania
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia (1966-)
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia
  • Mongolia
  • Mozambique
  • New Zealand
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan (1971-)
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Russia
  • Singapore
  • St Kitts and Nevis
  • St Lucia
  • St Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Taiwan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Togo
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Venezuela
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1978 to 2005.