International almanac of electoral history, 1981
By: principal investigator, Thomas T. Mackie
Series: ICPSR -- 8247; ICPSR (Series) -- 8247
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 3144
Subjects: Elections; History
Description: This data collection was assembled by Professor Thomas T. Mackie of the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. The data are published in The International Almanac of Electoral History edited by Thomas T. Mackie and Richard Rose. The data set contains information for elections in specified countries from the beginning of competitive national elections until December of 1981. Included are the United States Presidential election returns and votes for members of the lower houses of parliament in the remaining countries in the survey. Votes are recorded for every party which has at least once secured one percent or more of the valid vote in a national election. Some parties with fewer votes are included where this aids cross-national comparison, or where the separatist or regional character of the party may lead it to regard its own 'nation' as smaller than the total electorate. The universe for the sample included the following countries, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1981.

The file has a logical record length of 80. Missing data is denoted by a blank in all files.

File 1: 25 records; file 2: 88 records; file 3: 608 records; file 4: 598 records; file 5: 1,094 records; file 6: 731 records.