GERDA – German Election Database

The German Election Database provides a comprehensive dataset of local, state, and federal election results in Germany. The data is intended to facilitate research on electoral behavior, representation, and political responsiveness at multiple levels of government. All datasets include turnout and vote shares for all major parties. Moreover, we provide geographically harmonized datasets that account for changes in municipal boundaries and mail-in voting districts.

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Dataset Features

1. Municipal Elections

2. State Elections

3. Federal Elections

Harmonization to 2021 Boundaries

Authors

Citation

Please cite the accompanying paper when using this dataset:

Heddesheimer, Vincent, Hanno Hilbig, Florian Sichart, & Andreas Wiedemann. 2024. “German Election Database”.

@article{Heddesheimer2024GermanElections,
  author = {Heddesheimer Vincent, and Hanno Hilbig, and Florian Sichart and Andreas Wiedemann},
  title = {German Election Database},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/q28ex},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/q28ex}
}

Work in progress

The database is work in progress. If you have any suggestions, comments, or issues, please feel free to email us or to file an issue.