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Chilean Political Landscape Dataset

District-level electoral and party system indicators

Documentation

Codebook, version history, cautionary notes, and citation guidance for each release. All documents are PDF.

VERSION 3.0 · CURRENT · RELEASED 2026-08-07
6,119 observations · 42 variables · coverage 1989-2025 · 43 elections across 8 election types
Codebook
Variable definitions
Defines every variable in the v3.0 dataset, organized by category. Covers electoral structure, party system indicators, disproportionality, ideological measures, and demographics, including the additions for the 2024 municipal and regional elections and the 2025 parliamentary election.
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What's New
Changes from v2.0
Documents the differences between version 2.0 and version 3.0. Adds 818 new rows from the 2024 municipal and regional elections and the 2025 parliamentary election, bringing the total to 6,119 observations. Also documents an ideological-scores correction affecting 2,657 existing rows and one row-level fix in the 2021 Gobernador second-round data.
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Cautionary Notes
Methodological edge cases
Methodological decisions, source-data problems, and edge cases that may affect interpretation or distort user calculations. Carries forward all prior notes and adds issues specific to the 2024 and 2025 election rows. Read before computing aggregates.
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Suggested Citation
How to cite v3.0
Recommended citation format for the dataset and accompanying publication. Includes BibTeX entries and DOI links for both the Harvard Dataverse deposit and the Humanities and Social Sciences Communications article. Use when publishing research.
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Version History

Version Released Observations Coverage Note
3.0 2026-08-07 6,119 1989-2025 2024 + 2025 elections added
2.0 2026-01-16 5,301 1989-2023 Metadata-only release
1.0 2025-11-05 5,301 1989-2023 Initial release