Women's Legislative Candidacy and Political Violence in 555 Elections

Reed Wood compiled this dataset to analyze 555 multiparty national legislative elections across 136 countries between 1990 and 2022. It merges women's candidacy rates with temporally fine-grained violent events data to evaluate the impact of pre-election violence on candidate selection.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between pre-election violent events and female candidate participation rates
• Investigating the impact of civil conflict indicators on gender representation in legislative bodies
• Modeling candidate selection distortions using the 32-year cross-national longitudinal data

Strengths

• Includes 555 multiparty national legislative elections
• Covers 136 countries providing a global geographic scope
• Spans a 32-year period from 1990 to 2022
• Integrates electoral statistics with temporally fine-grained violent event data

Limitations

• Restricted to multiparty elections, excluding non-competitive political systems
• Geographic bias may exist in the reporting of violent events in certain regions
• Specific column names and metadata are not provided in the raw summary

Provenance

Source

Reed Wood, International Studies Quarterly Dataverse

Collection Method

Compiled from cross-national electoral records and violent event databases

Time Range

1990-2022

Freshness

Last updated March 2026; covers data through 2022.

Geography

Global (136 countries)