Replication Data for: Who Has School Spirit? Explaining Voter Participation in School Board Elections

This research note examines the correlates of turnout in Canadian school board elections. Using individual-level data from the Canadian Municipal Election Study, we find that gender, education, left-wing ideology, Conservative partisanship, and parental status were associated with participation in Calgary’s 2017 public school board elections. Some of these patterns relate to the specific details of Calgary’s 2017 election; others, we suggest, may be characteristic of school board elections more generally. We relate our findings to the literature on ballot roll-off and low turnout elections.

本研究简报考察加拿大学校董事会选举的投票率相关影响因素。本研究依托加拿大市政选举研究（Canadian Municipal Election Study）的个体层面数据开展分析，结果显示：性别、受教育程度、左翼意识形态、保守党党派认同以及为人父母身份，均与卡尔加里2017年公立学校董事会选举的选民参选行为存在关联。其中部分关联模式仅与卡尔加里2017年选举的具体细节相关，而我们认为其余模式或可推广至更广泛的学校董事会选举场景。本研究还将上述研究发现与有关选票脱落与低投票率选举的现有学术文献进行了关联分析。