Electoral precinct-level database for Mexican municipal elections

Electoral precinct-level database for Mexican municipal elections

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Abstract This paper introduces a database here of electoral precinct-level election returns for Mexican municipal elections between 1994 and 2019.This database includes: (i) electoral precinct-level votes for each electoral coalition, the coalitions of the incumbent mayor and incumbent state governor, and the four most popular political parties; (ii) electoral precinct-level valid and total votes, the number of registered voters, and turnout; (iii) the partisan composition and municipal-level votes of the incumbent and runner-up electoral coalitions from the previous election; and (iv) the partisan composition of the state-level incumbent governor.This paper outlines the organization of this data, its sources, sequal eclipse 5 battery and key variables, and describes the processes used to standardize the data.This database has the potential to support the cross-sectional and longitudinal study of local Mexican elections over two decades using fine-grained precinct-level electoral returns that enable panel and regression discontinuity analyses.