A dataset containing individual-level candidacy records from municipal elections in the municipality of Jilove (district Decin, 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 and diploma thesis cited below.
Pohlreich, D. (2023). Vyvoj mistni samospravy ve meste Jilove (The Development of Local Government in the Municipality of Jilove). Diploma thesis. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. [Full text]
Details
| Dataset overview: | |
| Municipality: | Jilove |
| District: | Decin |
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Number of elections: | 8 |
| Elections covered: | 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 |
| Number of candidacies (rows): | 745 |
| 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
Pohlreich, D. (2023). Vyvoj mistni samospravy ve meste Jilove (The Development of Local Government in the Municipality of Jilove). Diploma thesis. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. [Full text]
Examples
# Basic inspection
str(Jilove_DC_cz)
#> 'data.frame': 745 obs. of 14 variables:
#> $ elections : int 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 ...
#> $ candidate : chr "Frejvald Jiří" "Váňo Josef" "Zenkl František" "Vrba František" ...
#> $ list_name : chr "KSČM" "KSČM" "KSČM" "KSČM" ...
#> $ list_pos : int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
#> $ pref_votes : int 568 493 426 486 410 443 415 412 402 430 ...
#> $ elected : int 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#> $ nom_party : chr "KSČM" "KSČM" "KSČM" "KSČM" ...
#> $ pol_affil : chr "KSČM" "KSČM" "KSČM" "BEZPP" ...
#> $ mayor : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#> $ dep_mayor : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#> $ board : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#> $ gov_support : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#> $ elig_voters : int 3712 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ ballots_cast: int 1978 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
# Example of a basic continuity diagram (unformatted version)
plot_continuity(Jilove_DC_cz, elections = "1994-2010")
