Elections Global: Election results in 207 countries, 1880–2015

The Elections Global dataset compiles information about election results to 1st or “lower” chambers in 207 countries from 1880 to 2015 including 3569 elections and 3282 parties. Cross-comparability of data on political parties is enhanced by harmonizing party names and codes via Party Facts (Döring and Regel 2019). The aim of Elections Global is to provide the most encompassing, consistent, harmonized and validated dataset about fundamental key variables of political research. What is more, Elections Global served as the base for V-Party, an expert survey on various aspects of party ideology and organizations conducted by the V-Dem Institute. Yet, Elections Global covers some smaller countries beyond V-Dem’s sample. If researchers are interested specifically in those cases, we suggest using Elections Global. Else, we recommend working with the extended and updated V-Party dataset.