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

Three decades of harmonized election returns for Rome, Italy, from 1993 to 2023, covering municipal, national, and European elections. The dataset was compiled by Roberto De Rosa from official Italian Ministry of the Interior (Eligendo) sources and includes indicators for turnout, party competition, and electoral volatility. It was last updated on April 23, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term trends in voter turnout and abstention based on the described time series.
• Measuring party system fragmentation using the Effective Number of Electoral Parties (ENEP) indicator.
• Calculating electoral volatility with Pedersen's index to assess political stability.
• Investigating the personal vote by examining the gap between mayoral and list votes.
• Conducting cross-correlation analysis to compare electoral trends in Rome with national aggregates.

Strengths

• Covers a 30-year time span from 1993 to 2023, enabling longitudinal analysis.
• Includes data from four electoral arenas: municipal, regional, national, and European.
• Constructs harmonized indicators like ENEP and Pedersen's volatility for comparability.
• Uses 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 dataset is very small (454.0 B), suggesting it contains aggregated summary statistics rather than raw, granular election returns.

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 05:36:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rome, Italy