Roman Electoral Behavior Data (1993–2023) for Municipal, National, and European Elections

Three decades of harmonized election returns from Rome, Italy, spanning 1993 to 2023. The dataset, created by Roberto De Rosa, includes indicators for turnout, party competition, and electoral volatility across municipal, national, and European elections. Its 358-byte size suggests it contains aggregated summary statistics rather than raw vote-level data.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term trends in voter participation and abstention based on the described turnout indicators.
• Studying party system fragmentation and re-pluralization using the Effective Number of Electoral Parties (ENEP) metric.
• Measuring electoral volatility and realignment timing with Pedersen’s volatility index and cross-correlation analysis.
• Investigating the personal vote in mayoral elections based on the described mayor–list gap indicator.

Strengths

• Data covers a 30-year time span (1993–2023) for longitudinal analysis.
• Harmonized indicators allow comparison across four electoral arenas: municipal, regional, national, and European.
• Sourced from official election returns from the Italian Ministry of the Interior (Eligendo).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 358-byte file size indicates a very limited scope, likely containing only aggregated summary statistics.

Provenance

Source

Official election returns from the Italian Ministry of the Interior (Eligendo), complemented by municipio-level series.

Collection Method

Descriptive and diagnostic analysis using harmonized time series, segmented trend analysis, and cross-correlations.

Time Range

1993–2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 05:36:01; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rome, Italy