School Election 1991, Election Result

School Election 1991, Election Result

In advance of the municipal and local elections of 1991, mock elections were held in upper secondary schools on the 28th and the 29th of August 1991. The datasets contain the results of these mock elections as reported by the schools, and are consistent with the election result rapports published online, see <http://www.samfunnsveven.no>

In addition to the information concerning voter turnout and centile support for various parties, variables describing the municipality the school is placed in were added. In practice, this entailed adding variables concerning the environment of the school, specifically, information concerning the municipality, such as population density and share of the population that has emigrated from countries outside the Nordic region. The purpose was to facilitate inquiries of the impact of environmental factors in determining the political preferences of the students.

The school election of 1991 was the second in a line of nationally coordinated projects. It started as a loosely formulated idea during the parliamentary election of 1989. IBM expressed the desire to build a framework around the school elections, equivalent to that which they had already developed around parliamentary and municipal elections. NSD – Norwegian Centre for Research Data wanted to use the schools' ebd-equipment and the statistics program NSDstat to conduct a national election survey of students of upper secondary schools. The two ideas were commonly organized and the project was promised substantial media coverage through NRK's election coverage and text-TV. The project “School Election '89” was a success, and was followed by equivalent projects for subsequent elections. The mock election of 1991 was to all intents and purposes conducted in the same manner as its predecessor. NSD – Norwegian Centre for Research Data and IBM have been the organizers of the school election and the national survey. The project has received valuable support from the Ministry of Church Affairs, Education and Research (KUF). The mock elections were held on the 28th and the 29th of August in most of the participating schools. In total, 410 schools reported election results. This file contains information about each participating school.