Candidate or Party-specific Voting - SMD (lower/only house)

QoG code: jw_smdvote

Vote for single-member district tiers in elections to the lower house. The Vote variables focus attention on the distinction between casting votes for either parties or individual candidates. The variables equal (in order of increasing personal vote incentives): (0) where voters have only one vote for a party; (1) where voters can vote for a party or a candidate (as in open lists), where voters have multiple votes for multiple candidates (as in runoff or single-transferable vote systems), or where votes for a party or candidate are observationally equivalent (as in single-member districts); (2) where voters have one vote for an individual candidate.

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 72
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
  • Turkmenistan
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Venezuela
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1978 to 2005.