Vote Transition Counts for Ecological Inference, with New Zealand and Italy Case Studies

New Zealand and Italy electoral data support methods for estimating vote transition counts between two elections. The dataset includes simulated data and results from the 2011 New Zealand general election and a regional election in Umbria, Italy. Author Antonio Forcina published this 282.3 KB collection under a CC-BY-4.0 license, last updated on 2026-04 27.

Use Cases

• Evaluating methods like Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) based on simulated and real electoral data.
• Analyzing strategic voting behavior based on models applied to reduce ecological bias.
• Comparing constrained maximum likelihood and minimum Chi-square estimators based on performance metrics.
• Investigating voting patterns based on tables of transition counts from parliamentary and regional elections.

Strengths

• Includes real electoral results from the 2011 New Zealand general election.
• Provides an algorithm for simulating artificial electoral data according to a specified model.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• File size is 282.3 KB, facilitating quick download and inspection.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely contains simulated data and real electoral results from official sources.

Time Range

Includes data from the 2011 New Zealand general election.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 16:37:37; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New Zealand and Umbria, Italy.