Argentine Municipal Election Data from Buenos Aires Province 2011-2023

135 municipalities in the province of Buenos Aires provide data on electoral coordination between primary and general elections from 2011 to 2023. The dataset supports analysis of how primary election margins affect subsequent turnout and vote fragmentation. It was created by Adrián Lucardi for research published in the British Journal of Political Science.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between the margin between top-two primary parties and general election turnout.
• Model the probability of a second-placed primary party winning the general election compared to a third-placed party.
• Investigate how effects vary across concurrent elections, municipality size, and primary vote margins.

Strengths

• Data covers a 12-year period from 2011 to 2023.
• Includes observations from 135 distinct municipalities.
• Specifically designed to test theories of electoral coordination and Duvergerian equilibria.

Limitations

• Geographic scope is limited to the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• The specific variables, row count, and file structure are unknown from the description.
• Data may be aggregated at the municipal level, limiting individual voter analysis.

Provenance

Source

British Journal of Political Science Dataverse

Collection Method

Leverages Argentina's Open, Mandatory and Simultaneous Primary Elections as a large-scale survey of voter preferences.

Time Range

2011-2023

Freshness

Last updated on January 26, 2026.

Geography

135 municipalities in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.