Voting Results Under a Single-Transferable-Vote System in Malta, 1921-1996 (ICPSR 6657)

Version Date: Feb 26, 1998

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Principal Investigator(s):
John C. Lane

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06657.v2

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Summary

This data collection covers all parliamentary elections held in Malta from 1921 to 1996 except for elections to the short-lived Senate. The 19 elections involved 1,046 individuals undertaking 3,082 candidacies. The use of this dataset assumes some familiarity with the single-transferable-vote (STV) system and knowledge of concepts such as nontransferable votes and the need for repeated vote-transfer counts to determine the winners in multimember districts. A majority of the variables involve vote transfers, as these are crucial to the examination of both inter- and intra-party competition in an STV system. The dataset is organized by candidacy and includes records for nontransferable votes.

Citation

Lane, John C. Voting Results Under a Single-Transferable-Vote System in Malta, 1921-1996. [distributor], 1998-02-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06657.v2

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Time Period(s)

1921 -- 1996

Data Collection Notes

  1. The data are supplied in comma-delimited format. Data entry was performed in Quattro Pro. Because that program does not provide leading zeroes, the values of particular variables can vary in length from 1 to 5 digits. Thus, care needs to be taken when importing the data into statistical programs.

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Universe

All parliamentary elections from 1921 to 1996 in Malta except for elections to the Senate.

Data Source

"Declaration of Result of Poll," published after each election in the Malta GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, and the ANNUAL ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS

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Original Release Date

1996-04-04

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Lane, John C. VOTING RESULTS UNDER A SINGLE-TRANSFERABLE-VOTE SYSTEM IN MALTA, 1921-1996. ICPSR06657-v2. Buffalo, NY: John C. Lane, SUNY-University at Buffalo [producer], 1997. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06657.v2

1998-02-26 The data and documentation were resupplied by the principal investigator and now cover all parliamentary elections up to 1996. The new dataset also contains three new variables.

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