The first CLEA release is now available!
To download the file to your computer, please click the link that follows:
Dataset and codebook: August 15, 2008
(the zip file is 8 MB in size)
The dataset and documentation currently include 70 elections from 15 countries. Future releases are being planned that will include more countries and additional elections. Click on a country to view its country description from the codebook:
The central aim of the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) project is to produce a repository of detailed results - including votes received by each candidate/party, total votes cast, number of eligible voters, and seat figures where available - at a constituency level for the lower house legislative elections that have been conducted around the world. Our motivation is to preserve and consolidate these valuable data in one comprehensive and reliable reference resource that is ready for analysis and publicly available at no cost. This public good is expected to be of use to a range of audiences for research, education, and policy-making and evaluation.
The co-directors of the CLEA project are:
Professor Ken Kollman of the University of Michigan
Professor Allen Hicken of the University of Michigan
Professor Daniele Caramani of the University of St. Gallen
Professor David Backer of the College of William & Mary
The Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) project is extremely grateful to the American National Science Foundation for its support of the project.
Feedback? Questions? Data to contribute? Please email us at: clea@isr.umich.edu
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