Replication Data for: From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation:Turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s

This article examines the process of electoral mobilization that follows the extension of voting rights to low-income citizens. We take advantage of a historically unique panel data set of official registers that include individual voting roll-calls as well as individual demographics of almost 25,000 electors in Barcelona in the 1930s, matched with relevant precinct-level socio-economic, political and geographical data. We show that voting was driven by the direct mobilization strategies developed by political parties and by those social organizations, such as trade unions, that encompassed an important part of society. This was the case especially among unskilled workers and in areas with a high density of working class voters. We also show that turnout was shaped by indirect channels, such as the social networks in which partisan ideas and organizations were embedded. To identify the mobilizational effects of organizations we rely on a variety of strategies, including a sharp, short-term change in anarchist trade union's electoral strategies.