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Swedish electoral data: General elections 1973-2006

SND-ID: SND 0237

This study is part of the collection Swedish Electoral Data

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Description

Election returns for all electoral districts in Sweden. Includes information on the total number of persons entitled to vote in the general election, number of persons who actually voted, and number of valid and invalid ballots respectively. The number of votes casted by postal voting is also included.

Language

English

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Statistics Sweden

Responsible department/unit

Statistics Sweden
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Swedish electoral districts

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Time period(s) investigated

1973-09 – 2006-09

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit

Electoral area

Topic and keywords

Research area

Elections (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

elections, parliamentary elections, election data

Publications
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Dataset 1
Swedish electoral data: General election 1973

Version 1.0

Citation

Statistics Sweden (1995). Swedish electoral data: General election 1973. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002698

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Variables

24

Number of individuals/objects

6649

Dataset 2
Swedish electoral data: General election 1976

Version 1.0

Citation

Statistics Sweden (1997). Swedish electoral data: General election 1976. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002608

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Variables

25

Number of individuals/objects

6393

Dataset 3
Swedish electoral data: General election 1979

Version 1.0

Citation

Statistics Sweden (1997). Swedish electoral data: General election 1979. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002609

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Variables

26

Number of individuals/objects

6476

Dataset 4
Swedish electoral data: General election 1982

Version 1.0

Citation

Statistics Sweden (1997). Swedish electoral data: General election 1982. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002610

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Variables

26

Number of individuals/objects

6526

Dataset 5
Swedish electoral data: General election 1985

Version 1.0

Citation

Statistics Sweden (1997). Swedish electoral data: General election 1985. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002611

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Variables

25

Number of individuals/objects

6548

Dataset 6
Swedish electoral data: General election 1988

Version 1.0

Citation

Statistics Sweden (1997). Swedish electoral data: General election 1988. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002612

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Variables

26

Number of individuals/objects

6531

Dataset 7
Swedish electoral data: General election 1991

Version 1.0

Citation

Statistics Sweden (1997). Swedish electoral data: General election 1991. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002613

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Variables

27

Number of individuals/objects

6551

Dataset 8
Swedish electoral data: General election 1994

Version 1.0

Citation

Statistics Sweden (1999). Swedish electoral data: General election 1994. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002614

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Variables

26

Number of individuals/objects

6472

Dataset 9
Swedish electoral data: General election 1998

Version 1.0

Citation

Statistics Sweden (1999). Swedish electoral data: General election 1998. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002615

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Variables

24

Number of individuals/objects

6397

Dataset 10
Swedish electoral data: General election 2002

Version 2.1

2016-02-02
https://doi.org/10.5878/002753

Variable(s) corrected : Municipality (llkkff) and electoral district (llkkffdd) changed from numeric to string

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Citation

Statistics Sweden (2016). Swedish electoral data: General election 2002. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.1. https://doi.org/10.5878/002753

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Keywords

elections, parliamentary elections, election data

Variables

23

Number of individuals/objects

6266

Dataset 11
Swedish electoral data: General election 2006

Version 2.1

2016-02-10
https://doi.org/10.5878/002754

Variable(s) corrected : Electoral district (llkkffdd) - leading zero for codes belonging to county 01-01

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Citation

Statistics Sweden (2016). Swedish electoral data: General election 2006. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.1. https://doi.org/10.5878/002754

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Statistics Sweden

Keywords

elections, parliamentary elections, election data

Variables

22

Number of individuals/objects

6073

Published: 1989-01-01
Last updated: 2017-07-11