Results of the Danish School General Elections 2015-2024

Description

Every two years since 2015 a mock general election has been held among 8th, 9th and 10th graders in Denmark. It is voluntary for the schools to participate in the elections. More info at Skolevalg.dk (in Danish).

Repository content

The skolevalg.csv data file consists of the following variables:

• date = Date of the school election
• year = Year of the school election
• school = School
• school_id = ID of the school (missing until 2024)
• party_s = Number of votes for the Social Democratic Party
• party_rv = Number of votes for the Social Liberal Party
• party_kf = Number of votes for the Convervative People's Party
• party_nb = Number of votes for the New Right (only 2017-2021)
• party_sf = Number of votes for the Socialist People's Party
• party_vegan = Number of votes for the Vegan Party (only 2021)
• party_la = Number of votes for the Liberal Alliance
• party_kd = Number of votes for the Christian Democrats (only 2015 and 2019-2021)
• party_m = Number of votes for the Moderates (from 2024)
• party_df = Number of votes for the Danish People's Party
• party_v = Number of votes for the Liberal Party
• party_dd = Number of votes for the Denmark Democrats (from 2024)
• party_el = Number of votes for the Red-Green Alliance
• party_alt = Number of votes for the Alternative (from 2017)
• blank = Number of blank votes (missing from 2024)
• invalid = Number of invalid votes
• not_voted = Number of students that have not voted (missing from 2024)
• valid = Number of valid votes
• electorate = Electorate (missing from 2024)
• municipality = Municipality where the school is located
• municipality_id = ID of the municipality where the school is located
• zip_code = Zip code of the school
• region = Region where the school is located
• region_id = ID of the region where the school is located

The following command will load the data into R:

read.csv(url("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Straubinger/skolevalg/master/skolevalg.csv"))