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Dates of Spanish elections

Source: R/data.R
dates_elections_spain.Rd

A dataset containing the dates of Spanish elections in referendum, congress, senate, municipal, cabildo (Canarian council) and European Parlament elections. Only elections from 1980 onwards have been provided. Last update: 2025/05/01.

Usage

data(dates_elections_spain)

Format

A tibble with 62 rows and 7 variables:

  • cod_elec: code of type of elections. Allowed values:

    • "01": referendum elections.

    • "02": congress elections.

    • "03": senate elections.

    • "04": local (municipalities) elections.

    • "05": regional elections.

    • "06": cabildo - Canarian council - elections).

    • "07": European Parlament elections.

  • type_elec: type of elections ("referendum", "congress", "senate", "local", "regional", "cabildo" or "EU").

  • date: date of election in "YYYY-MM-DD" format

  • year, month, day: year, month and day of election

  • topic: topic of referendums (cod_elec = "01")

Source

Data extracted from Spanish Ministry of Interior

Author

Javier Alvarez-Liebana and David Pereiro-Pol.

Examples

# Load data
data(dates_elections_spain)