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Description
Three decades of harmonized election returns for Rome, Italy, from 1993 to 2023, compiled by Roberto De Rosa. The dataset includes indicators for turnout, party competition, electoral volatility, and personalization across municipal, national, and European elections. It is a small dataset of 478 bytes, last updated in April 2026.
Use Cases
Analyzing long-term trends in voter participation and abstention based on the described turnout indicators.
Studying the evolution of party competition and fragmentation 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 from 1993 to 2023, allowing for longitudinal analysis.
Indicators are harmonized across four electoral arenas: municipal, regional, national, and European.
Based on official election returns from the Italian Ministry of the Interior (Eligendo).
Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
Limitations
Dataset size is only 478 bytes, indicating extremely limited scope or summary-level data.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analyses.
Provenance
Source
Official election returns from the Italian Ministry of the Interior (Eligendo), compiled by author Roberto De Rosa.
Collection Method
Descriptive analysis using harmonized time series, segmented trend analysis, and cross-correlation tests.
Time Range
1993–2023
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-23 05:36:05; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Rome, Italy
The dataset is very small (478 bytes), suggesting it may contain summary statistics or aggregated indicators rather than raw election returns.