The fourth CLEA release is now available!
To download the raw data files to your computer, please click the link that follows:
>Dataset and codebook: September 14, 2011
(Note: Zip file size is 24MB)
If you would also like a SPSS portable file, please click the link that follows:
SPSS portable file: September 14, 2011
(Note: Zip file size is 24MB)
If you would also like a STATA .dta file, please click the link that follows:
STATA .dta file: November 16, 2011
(Note: Zip file size is 14MB)
Errata - updates and corrections.
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(Note: 3.0 release.)
The dataset and documentation currently include 1098 elections from 73 countries. Future releases are being planned that will include more countries and additional elections.
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
Doctor David Backer of the United States Institute of Peace
Project Manager is Doctor Jill Wittrock of the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
The Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) project is extremely grateful to the American National Science Foundation and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy for their support of the project.
Ken Kollman, Allen Hicken, Daniele Caramani, and David Backer. Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA; www.electiondataarchive.org), September 14, 2011 [dataset]. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer and distributor].
Feedback? Questions? Data to contribute? Please email us at: clea@isr.umich.edu
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