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by maxweylandt 630 days ago
Just uploaded the most complete and fine-grained dataset of Parliamentary election results for my country, Namibia. (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi...)

Official data sharing practices are poor - results are are often in the wrong format or not available at all. I had to be quite resourceful to put this all together. As I transition out of academia I hope this sort of data helps others do interesting work.

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I would like to add what on the p. 3 you probably want to add a percent of the vote difference, it can help for 'at a glance' 'analysis'.

Great work anyway, and it's interesting how the errors (and not the errors) in the vote coubt manifest. Thanks!