Elections in Post-Communist States

This page provides data, documents and research papers related to elections in post-communist states. Please forward comments, questions or criticisms. 

Election Bibliographies
As the bibliographer for the American Political Science Association's Section on Representation and Electoral Systems, I prepare a semi-annual bibliography of recently published articles and books that are relevant to researchers. You will find copies of these bibliographies below in rich text format.

Bibliography on Representation and Electoral Systems (September 2003-March 2004) rtf
Bibliography on Representation and Electoral Systems (March 2003-September 2003) rtf
Bibliography on Representation and Electoral Systems (September 2002-March 2003) rtf
Bibliography on Representation and Electoral Systems (Early 2002-September 2002) rtf

Election Data
Feel free to use the election data for your own research, but please provide a citation to this web site in any conference papers, articles or other publications. More election data will be made available in the near future.

Armenia 1999 Parliamentary Elections (Constituency-Level SMD Data; National-Level PR Data) - xls
Georgia 1999 Parliamentary Elections (Partial Precinct-Level SMD Data) - xls
Lithuania 1996 Parliamentary Elections (Constituency-Level SMD Data (Round 1) and PR Data) - xls
Russia 1993 Parliamentary Elections (Constituency-Level SMD Data) - xls
Russia 1995 Parliamentary Elections (Constituency-Level SMD and PR Data) - xls
Russia 1999 Parliamentary Elections (Constituency-Level SMD and PR Data) - xls Please note that the dataset contains results posted by the Central Electoral Commission following the election (downloaded in January 2000). These results differ from the final results reported by the CEC.
Ukraine 1998 Parliamentary Elections (Constituency-Level SMD and PR Data) - xls

Research Papers
Ferrara, Federico and Erik S. Herron. 2003. "Going it Alone? Strategic Entry Under Mixed Electoral Rules." Paper in pdf format and data in Excel format. A modified version was published in the American Journal of Political Science, 2005.

Herron, Erik S. with Paul E. Johnson. 2003. "'It Doesn't Matter Who Votes, but Who Counts the Votes': Assessing Fraud in Ukraine's 2002 Parliamentary Elections." Paper in pdf format.

Barrington, Lowell W. and Erik S. Herron. 2003. "One Ukraine or Many? Regionalism in Ukraine and its Political Consequences." Paper in pdf format and election data in Stata format. A modified version was published in Nationalities Papers, 2004.

Barrington, Lowell W., Erik S. Herron and Brian D. Silver. 2003. "The Motherland is Calling: Views of Homeland Among Russians in the Near Abroad." World Politics. 55(January):290-313. Zip file with data and codebook from the project.

Election Links
Administration and Cost of Elections Project
Carter Center
Comparative Study of Election Systems
Elections Around the World
Election Resources
International Foundation of Election Systems
International IDEA
Inter-Parliamentary Union
Klipsan Press
OSCE - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Political Transformations and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe
Psephisma.org