A dataset containing individual-level candidacy records from municipal elections in the municipality of Cernosice (district Praha-zapad, Czech Republic).
Source
The dataset was compiled primarily from official election results published by the Czech Statistical Office. Additional contextual or verification information (such as post-election roles) was obtained from publicly available municipal records.
Details
| Dataset overview: | |
| Municipality: | Cernosice |
| District: | Praha-zapad |
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Number of elections: | 8 |
| Elections covered: | 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 |
| Number of candidacies (rows): | 971 |
| Note: | Municipality website |
Description of variables
| Variable | Description |
| elections | Election identifiers (numeric) |
| candidate | Candidate's full name (character) |
| list_name | Name of the candidate list (character) |
| list_pos | Candidate's position on the list (numeric) |
| pref_votes | Number of preferential votes (numeric) |
| elected | Logical; TRUE if candidate was elected |
| nom_party | Nominating party (character) |
| pol_affil | Political affiliation (character) |
| mayor | TRUE if elected mayor |
| dep_mayor | TRUE if elected deputy mayor |
| board | TRUE if member of the executive board |
| gov_support | TRUE if supported the local government |
| elig_voters | Number of eligible voters (numeric) |
| ballots_cast | Number of ballots cast (numeric) |
Each record describes one candidate's run for office, including their candidate list affiliation, position on the list, nominating party, political affiliation, number of preferential votes, and whether they were elected or held specific positions (mayor, deputy mayor, member of the executive body).
The dataset also includes contextual election-level information, such as the number of eligible voters and ballots cast, which can be used to calculate voter turnout and related indicators. These variables appear only once per election and constituency (they may be stored in a single candidate row for that election/constituency)
References
Muller, K. B. (2018). Dobre vladnuti ve verejnem nezajmu. Lokalni politicke elity jako klicovi akteri demokratizace? (Good Governance in Public Disinterest. Local Political Elites as Key Actors of Democratization?). Prague: Sociologicke nakladatelstvi (SLON). [Publisher link]
Muller, K. B. (2018). Dobre vladnuti a jeho akteri v postkomunistickem happyvillu aneb jak rozhodovat v zajmu tech, kteri nejsou slyset (Good governance and its actors in a post-communist happyville. How to govern in favour of those who remain salient). Acta Politologica 10(1), 57-85. [Full text]
Formackova, M. (2013). Vyvoj mistni samospravy v obci Cernosice (The Development of Local Government in the Municipality of Cernosice). Master thesis. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. [Full text]
Hausmannova, H. (2011). Obcanska spolecnost a politicke elity na komunalni urovni (Civil Society and Political Elites on Local Level). Bachelor thesis. Prague University of Economics and Business. [Full text]
Examples
# Basic inspection
str(Cernosice_PZ_cz)
#> 'data.frame': 971 obs. of 14 variables:
#> $ elections : int 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 ...
#> $ candidate : chr "Benešová Marta" "Králík Miroslav" "Šabata Aleš" "Prskavec Jan" ...
#> $ list_name : chr "D92" "D92" "D92" "D92" ...
#> $ list_pos : int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
#> $ pref_votes : int 987 943 1056 818 965 764 702 692 750 982 ...
#> $ elected : int 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 ...
#> $ nom_party : chr "NK" "NK" "NK" "NK" ...
#> $ pol_affil : chr "BEZPP" "BEZPP" "BEZPP" "BEZPP" ...
#> $ mayor : int NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ dep_mayor : int NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ board : int NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ gov_support : int NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ elig_voters : int 3345 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ ballots_cast: int 2425 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
# Example of a basic continuity diagram (unformatted version)
plot_continuity(Cernosice_PZ_cz, elections = "2010-")
