Update Log
This page tracks major updates to the German Election Database datasets.
2025-11-28
Municipality elections: municipal_unharm, municipal_harm
- Corrected issues in Schleswig-Holstein 1998 and Rhineland-Palatinate 1999 municipal election data
2025-11-21
State elections: state_unharm, state_harm
- Added state election data to include state elections in 2022 (Niedersachsen) and 2023 (Bavaria and Hessen)
2025-11-20
Federal elections: federal_muni_raw, federal_muni_unharm, federal_muni_harm
- Resolved issue in harmonized federal election data at municipality level where some municipalities entered with 0 vote shares for 2021 or 2025 depending on the dataset
2025-10-09
Covariate panel data: ags_area_pop_emp_2023
- Updated covariate panel data to period 1990-2023
2025-07-31
Federal elections: federal_cty_unharm, federal_cty_harm
- Removed minor error: Berlin was sometimes duplicated due to two different county ags. Now aggregated to one ags for Berlin for each election year
2025-05-20
Federal elections
- Updated federal election datasets to include 2025 elections
- Create two versions of the harmonized panel:
- 2021 borders: All elections (1990-2025) mapped to 2021 municipality boundaries
- 2025 borders: All elections (1990-2025) mapped to 2025 municipality boundaries
- Created our own crosswalks based on official crosswalking data from the BBSR
2025-04-22
Federal and state elections
- Added election dates for federal and state elections based on election type and date combinations
2025-04-14
Publication of database on Nature: Scientific Data