Roman Electoral Behavior Data (1993–2023) from Official Returns

Roberto De Rosa's dataset contains harmonized election returns for Rome, Italy, from 1993 to 2023. It covers municipal, regional, national, and European elections, enabling analysis of turnout, party competition, and electoral volatility. The data was last updated on April 23, 2026.

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 index and cross-correlation analysis.
• Investigating the personal vote in mayoral elections based on the described mayor–list gap indicator.

Strengths

• Covers a 30-year time span (1993–2023) across four electoral arenas.
• Based on official election returns from the Italian Ministry of the Interior (Eligendo).
• Includes constructed indicators like ENEP, electoral volatility, and the mayor–list gap.

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 (347.0 B), suggesting it may contain aggregated summary statistics rather than raw election returns.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Harmonized time series constructed from official returns for descriptive and diagnostic analysis.

Time Range

1993–2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 05:36:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rome, Italy