SLOVAK ELECTION DATA PROJECT: RESULTS OF THE 2010 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

DATA SET DOCUMENTATION

Marek Hlavac Georgetown University [email protected]

Last update: 28 June 2010

Available at: http://sites.google.com/site/marekhlavac/slovak_election_data_project

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SLOVAK ELECTION DATA PROJECT The Slovak Election Data Project makes election data from the Slovak Republic available to academic researchers, students, policy-makers and the general public. The data sets are constructed from publicly available information published by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic (Štatistický úrad Slovenskej republiky). They are provided in a number of standard computer-readable formats, and – as such – are more convenient for use in research and analysis than the .xls files provided by the Statistical Office. The project is managed by Marek Hlavac, currently a graduate student at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He can be reached by e-mail at [email protected].

Disclaimer: The Slovak Election Data Project is not affiliated with any government, academic or research institution. All data sets and programs are provided without any warranty - without even the warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall the manager of the Slovak Election Data Project be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages of any type or nature resulting from the use of any of the provided data sets or programs.

DATA SET USE Please feel free to use our data set in your research. If you are using our data set that contains results of the 2010 parliamentary election in Slovakia, we ask you, however, to include the following citation in your paper or publication: Hlavac, Marek. 2010. "Results of the 2010 Parliamentary Election in the Slovak Republic - Data Set." Slovak Election Data Project, 28 June 2010.

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DATA DESCRIPTION The slovakia_parl_election_2010 data set contains the final results of Slovakia’s 2010 parliamentary election. This election was held on June 12th, 2010. The data set contains the number and proportion of valid ballots cast for each participating political party at the municipality, district, ward, region and country levels. At the district, ward, region and country levels, furthermore, the data set includes information about the number of voting precincts, voter eligibility and turnout, as well as the number of voters who cast their votes in person at the polling station, and of those who voted from abroad by mail. The data set consists of five types of records (indicated by record_type) based on the administrative units that the record covers:

Value of record_type

English description

Slovak equivalent

1

municipality

obec

2

district

okres

3

ward

obvod

(also called ‘territorial district’ by the Statistical Office) 4

region

kraj

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country

Slovenská republika

(Slovak Republic)

Depending on the administrative unit that your analysis focuses on, you may wish to restrict the data set only to the relevant record type. If, for instance, you are doing your analysis at the ward level, you may wish to keep only observations with record_type = 3.

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Variable descriptions: Record-keeping: Variable name

Variable description

record_type

Record type: 1 municipality; 2 district; 3 ward; 4 region 5 country

region

Region name

ward

Ward name

district

District name

municipality

Municipality name

The following variables are not available at the municipal level: Variable name

Variable description

voters_eligible

Number of eligible voters

voters_participated

Number of voters who participated in the election

voter_turnout

Election voter turnout (in %) = participated / eligible

voted_from_abroad

Number of ballots submitted from abroad - election by mail

voted_in_person

Number of ballots submitted in person at polling station

voting_precincts

Number of voting precincts

The remaining variables are available at all administrative levels: Variable name

Variable description

valid_ballots

Number of valid ballots cast

count_(party abbreviation)

Number of valid ballots won by political party represented by (party abbreviation)

pct_(party abbreviation)

Proportion (in %) of valid ballots won by party represented by (party abbrev.)

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Party abbreviations: Party abbreviation

Name of the party

in data set

(English translation in brackets)

EDS

Európska demokratická strana (European Democratic Party) Únia – Strana pre Slovensko

Unia

(Union – Party for Slovakia) SRK

Strana rómskej koalície - SRK (Party of the Roma Coalition – SRK)

Paliho_Kapurkova

Paliho Kapurková, veselá politická strana (Pali’s Last Shot, humorous political party)

SaS

Sloboda a Solidarita (Freedom and Solidarity) Strana demokratickej ľavice

SDL

(Party of the Democratic Left) SMK

Strana maďarskej koalície – Magyar Koalíció Pártja (Party of the Hungarian Coalition)

LS_HZDS

Ľudová strana – Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko (People’s Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia)

KSS

Komunistická strana Slovenska (Communist Party of Slovakia)

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continued from the previous page Party abbreviation

Name of the party

in data set

(English translation in brackets)

SNS

Slovenská národná strana (Slovak National Party)

ND

Nová Demokracia (New Democracy) Združenie robotníkov Slovenska

ZRS

(Association of the Workers of Slovakia) Kresťansko-demokratické hnutie

KDH

(Christian-Democratic Movement) Ľudová strana – Naše Slovensko

LSNS

(People’s Party – Our Slovakia) SDKU_DS

Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia – Demokratická strana (Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party)

AZEN

Aliancia za Európu národov (Alliance for the Europe of Nations)

SMER

SMER (Direction)

MOST_HID

Most-Híd (Bridge)

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