Electoral Indicators for Rome, Italy (1993–2023)

406.5 KB of harmonized election data for Rome, covering municipal, regional, national, and European elections from 1993 to 2023. The dataset, created by Roberto De Rosa and shared under CC-BY-4.0, includes indicators for turnout, party competition, volatility, and personalization. It was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term trends in voter participation and abstention based on harmonized turnout time series.
• Studying party system fragmentation and realignment using the Effective Number of Electoral Parties (ENEP) indicator.
• Measuring electoral volatility and its timing relative to national trends using Pedersen's index and cross-correlations.
• Investigating the personal vote in mayoral elections based on the mayor–list gap indicator.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 406.5 KB file size suggests a limited scope of data.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Harmonized time series constructed from official returns, with segmented trend analysis and cross-correlation tests.

Time Range

1993–2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 05:36:07; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rome, Italy