Variable: Sharing of Votes among Candidates - SMD (lower/only house)

QoG Code: (jw_smdpool)


Dataset: Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote

Description:

Pool for single-member district tiers in elections to the lower house. The Pool variables measure the extent to which votes among candidates from the same party are shared. The variables equal (in order of increasing personal vote incentives): (0) where pooling of votes occurs across all candidates in a party in a district; (1) where pooling of votes occurs across some, but not all, candidates in a party in a district, or, where there is vote pooling across all candidates in a party in a district, but where the average district accounts for 5% or less of a legislature's membership; (2) where no pooling of votes occurs across candidates in a party (including single-member districts).

Type of variable: Categorical

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: 73


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