A dataset containing individual-level candidacy records from municipal elections in the municipality of Hradce (district Ceske Budejovice, 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: | Hradce |
| District: | Ceske Budejovice |
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Number of elections: | 10 |
| Elections covered: | 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022 |
| Number of candidacies (rows): | 103 |
| 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
Krpalkova, S. (2024). Permanentni opakovani komunalnich voleb: zablokovane obce? (Permanent repetition of municipal election: blocked municipalities?). Dissertation thesis. Charles University. [Full text]
Examples
# Basic inspection
str(Hradce_CB_cz)
#> 'data.frame': 103 obs. of 14 variables:
#> $ elections : int 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1998 ...
#> $ candidate : chr "Bártová Ludmila" "Andrle František" "Dána Jiří" "Šafránek František" ...
#> $ list_name : chr "Ludmila Bártová, NK" "František Andrle, NK" "Jiří Dána, NK" "František Šafránek, NK" ...
#> $ list_pos : int 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#> $ pref_votes : int 14 18 15 16 5 18 4 12 16 13 ...
#> $ elected : int 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 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 31 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 29 ...
#> $ ballots_cast: int 25 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 23 ...
# Example of a basic continuity diagram (unformatted version)
plot_continuity(Hradce_CB_cz, elections = "2006-")
