A dataset containing individual-level candidacy records from municipal elections in the municipality of Potucky (district Karlovy Vary, 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: | Potucky |
| District: | Karlovy Vary |
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Number of elections: | 8 |
| Elections covered: | 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 |
| Number of candidacies (rows): | 130 |
| 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
Hornek, J. (2017). Komunalni politika v malych bohatych obcich v Ceske republice: politicke souboje o zastupitelska kresla ci vsestranna kooperace ve prospech obci? (Local Government in Small Rich Municipalities in the Czech Republic: Political Battles for the Chairs of Representatives or Versatile Cooperation for the Benefits of Municipalities?). Scientia et Societas, 13(4), 115-143. [Full text]
Examples
# Basic inspection
str(Potucky_KV_cz)
#> 'data.frame': 130 obs. of 14 variables:
#> $ elections : int 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 ...
#> $ candidate : chr "Schneider Milan" "Zuvač František" "Jukl Jozef" "Rauch Vladimír" ...
#> $ list_name : chr "Milan Schneider, NK" "František Zuvač, NK" "Jozef Jukl, NK" "Vladimír Rauch, NK" ...
#> $ list_pos : int 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
#> $ pref_votes : int 56 51 56 89 80 26 85 35 38 142 ...
#> $ elected : int 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 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 246 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ ballots_cast: int 168 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
# Example of a basic continuity diagram (unformatted version)
plot_continuity(Potucky_KV_cz, elections = "2010-", lists = "elected")
