Variable: First Multiparty Election

QoG Code: (nelda_fme)


Dataset: National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy, Version 6

Description:

This indicates when a newly independent country is having its first elections, when a country holds the first multiparty elections after a significant period of non-democratic rule, or when a country transitions from single-party elections to multiparty elections. Multiparty means that more than one party is allowed to contest the election, and that at least some of the parties are both nominally and effectively independent of the ruling actors.

Values:
0. No
1. Yes

Type of variable: Binary

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-11-06
Last updated by source: 2021-07-23


Categories:

Political Parties and Elections Political System


Find this variable in:

OECD Time-series - 2026 Standard Cross-section - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 108
Standard time-series: 191
OECD time-series: 32


This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 1946 to the year 2020