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Data type*	Numeric  String  Date
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Label*	Date of election to lower legislative chamber
Related indicators	<ul> <li>[[Election dummy lower legislative chamber]]</li> </ul>
Description*	This indicator captures the date of an election to the 1st or lower legislative chamber.
Coding rules	<ul> <li>Only elections to 1st or "lower" legislative chambers are considered. Presidential elections and elections to 2nd chambers are not included in Elections Global.</li> <li>Data is reported valid as of December 31st of a given year. In rare cases where more than one election took place in a given year, earlier elections are not included.</li> <li>Whenever possible, the exact date is reported. In some cases only the year and month could be identified, while in a few cases only the year could be determined.</li> <li>For further coding rules see the codebook of Döring and Düpont 2020.</li> </ul>
Citation	Döring, Holger, and Nils Düpont. 2020. ''Elections Global: Election results in 207 countries, 1880–2015. Harvard Dataverse, V2 [Dataset]''. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OGOURC.
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Project manager(s)*	Nils Düpont (A01), Paul Bederke
Data release	<ul><li>Version 0.001: Initial release</li></ul>
Revisions	No revisions yet
Sources	<ul> <li>Döring, Holger, and Nils Düpont. 2020. ''Elections Global: Election results in 207 countries, 1880–2015. Harvard Dataverse, V2 [Dataset]''. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OGOURC.</li> </ul>

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