Data

This project used Data supplied by the Bosnian Electoral Commission.

Raw Data

The Raw Data folder contains most of the raw data either obtained from the Electoral Commissions (Results for local and general elections) or Open Street Map for mapping data.

Cleaned Data

Raw data was cleaned using OpenRefine.

Mapping municipalities to Election Units

The only consistent low-aggregation unit in elections are municipalities: So most data is based on Municipalities. We're re-using the electoral commissions IDs for municipalities and associating them to the electoral units used in different election races.

File: municipality-ids-election-units.csv

Columns:

name	description	data format
municipality_ID	ID of the municipality	0 padded 3 digit number
municipality_name	Name of the Municipality	String
election_type	Name of the election	an Election Race
election_unit_id	ID of the election unit the municipality is part of	0 padded 3 digit number

Mapping election units to seats

Further we've gathered the number of seats in the various parliaments by election unit

File: parliament-seats-by-election-units.csv

Columns:

name	description	type
election_unit_ID	The ID of the election unit for the respective race	0 padded 3 digit number
seats	Direct seats in the parliament voted for	integer
race	The short string for the race	see Election Race

Results

Election Results are in the Results folder

Columns follow the following structure

name	description	type
election_unit_ID	id of the election unit	0 padded 3 digit number
election_type	the election type	see Election Race
year	the year of the election	Data formatted 'YYYY'
polling_station_ID	the id of the polling station	A multi character identifier unique to polling stations
municipality_ID	the id of the municipality	0 padded 3 digit number
party	the name of the party	String (optional)
votes	votes received by the party / the candidate	Integer
candidate	the name of the candidate	String (optional)

Shape files for Municipalities

We unified data from Open Street Map into a shapefile of municipalities and added two municipalities missing on OSM.

Reuse

You are welcome to re-use the data and build your own projects and analysis.