Lithuanian parliamentary election data

This repository stores a cleaned up version of Lithuanian parliamentary election voting data. The original data sets are freely available from https://www.rinkejopuslapis.lt/ataskaitu-formavimas website. The original data sets were downloaded on August 31, 2016. Some minor issues were fixed (mismatched total votes counts).

This data set was studied in a paper [1]. You may freely reuse the data in your analysis. Though a reference to [1] would be appreciated.

Note that this data set does not contain any data about voting by post (preliminary voting) as well as no votes cast in embassies and consulates.

Data structure

Each year data set is stored in 4 distinct files:

• "YYYY-parties.csv" - stores names of the parties which participated in the election
• "YYYY-major-district.csv" - stores names of the electoral districts
• "YYYY-minor-district.csv" - stores names of the poling stations, as well as number of registered voters and total vote count
• "YYYY-votes.csv" - stores number of votes cast for parties in polling stations

YYYY-parties.csv. This file stores two columns - org_id and org_name. org_id is an identifier for party whose name is org_name.

YYYY-major-district.csv. This file stores two columns - major_id and major_name. major_id is an identifier for an electoral district whose name is major_name.

YYYY-minor-district.csv. This file stores six columns:

• minor_gid - generic identifier for a polling station (this is a unique id)
• major_id - identifier of electoral district to which this polling station belongs
• minor_id - identifier assigned to a polling station by electoral commission (there are duplicates even in the same electoral district)
• minor_name - name of the polling station
• registered_voters - number of voter assigned to this polling station
• votes - number of votes cast in this polling station

YYYY-votes.csv. This files stores three columns:

• minor_gid - polling station identifier
• org_id - party identifier
• votes - votes cast for the party in the polling station

All data files contain exactly one header row with column names. All data files are semicolon separated.

Tool

This repository also contains Python script file which helps converting between the raw data downloaded and the data presented here (see tool directory). It was tested on the 2020 election data.

Updates

• 2018 November 20. Added 2016 election data.
• 2024 July 7. Added 2020 election data.

References

1. A. Kononovicius, Empirical analysis and agent-based modeling of Lithuanian parliamentary elections, Complexity 2017: 7354642. doi: 10.1155/2017/7354642. arXiv: 1704.02101 [physics.soc-ph].