Harmonised election returns for Rome, Italy, covering municipal, national, and European elections from 1993 to 2023. The dataset includes indicators for turnout, party competition, volatility, and personalization. Roberto De Rosa compiled the data from official Italian Ministry of Interior sources.
Use Cases
- Analyzing long-term trends in voter participation based on turnout/abstention indicators
- Studying party system evolution based on the Effective Number of Electoral Parties (ENEP) metric
- Measuring electoral volatility using Pedersen's index
- Investigating the personal vote phenomenon based on the mayor–list gap indicator
- Comparing electoral behavior across different arenas (municipal, national, European)
Strengths
- Data spans three decades (1993–2023) of electoral history
- Includes harmonised time series for consistent analysis across four electoral arenas
- Derived from official election returns from the Italian Ministry of Interior
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- The dataset is very small (416.0 B), suggesting it likely contains aggregated summary statistics rather than raw election returns
Provenance
- Source
- Official election returns from the Italian Ministry of Interior (Eligendo)
- Collection Method
- Constructed comparable indicators from harmonised time series
- Time Range
- 1993–2023
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-23 05:36:02; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Rome, Italy