Sharing of Votes among Candidates - SMD (upper house)

QoG code: jw_smdpool2

Pool for single-member district tiers in elections to the upper 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
Binary
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 8
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1978-2005

Country coverage

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  • Colombia
  • Czech Republic
  • Dominican Republic
  • France (1963-)
  • Italy
  • Switzerland
  • Thailand
  • United States

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1978 to 2005.