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

Official election returns from Rome, Italy, spanning three decades from 1993 to 2023, were compiled by author Roberto De Rosa. The dataset includes harmonized time series for analyzing turnout, party competition, and electoral volatility across municipal, national, and European arenas. It was last updated on April 23, 2026, and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term trends in voter participation and abstention based on harmonized turnout indicators.
• Studying party system fragmentation and re-pluralization using the Effective Number of Electoral Parties (ENEP) metric.
• Measuring electoral realignment and stability with Pedersen’s electoral volatility index.
• Investigating the personalization of politics by calculating the mayor–list gap as a proxy for personal vote.

Strengths

• Covers a 30-year time span (1993–2023) for longitudinal analysis.
• Compares electoral behavior across four distinct political arenas (municipal, regional, national, European).
• Based on official election returns from the Italian Ministry of the Interior (Eligendo).

Limitations

• The dataset is extremely small (433 bytes), suggesting it may contain only summary statistics or metadata, not detailed election returns.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for detailed analysis.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Official election returns were harmonized to construct comparable indicators.

Time Range

1993–2023

Freshness

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

Geography

Rome, Italy