Elections and electoral systems around the world

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ACE Electoral Knowledge Network
Adam Carr's Election Archive
Antibafflegab has data on national level elections from: December 21st 2006 to March 3rd 2007
Parliamentary elections around the world
The Lijphart Elections Archive
The IFES maintains an Election Guide that includes upcoming elections around the world, and has a Global Initiative to Enfranchise People with Disabilities and an Arab Election Law Compendium
Maximiliano Herrera offers a worldwide electoral calendar
Election Resources on the Internet has a useful collection of links to election results
Election Updates
Electoral Geography
Fair Vote Canada has various publications on electoral systems and voting
The Journal of Democracy has an Election Watch
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee monitors elections and human rights and produces reports
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a collaborative program of cross-national research among election studies conducted in over fifty consolidated and emerging democracies
C2D, Research and Documentation Centre on Direct Democracy, U of Geneva
Accurate Democracy has a useful page in which Robert Loring explains his synthesis of STV and Condorcet rules. There is also a free version of Political Sim (TM) for games and research
The Electoral Reform Society has a good deal of information on electoral systems
OSCE election calendar EPERN European Parties Elections & Referendums Network
The Proportional Representation Society of Australia has extensive information and links to other election-related sites
The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented. Includes information about PR
The Proportional Representation Library has bibliographic and other information on PR
Elections: Results and Voting systems has information about voting systems
Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell have an Electoral Systems website offering data on the effective number of parties and the least squares index at over 900 elections in over 90 countries, an Excel file that enables the user, by entering election data, to ascertain the values of the effective number of parties and the least squares index, and also an Excel file that calculates D'Hondt and Sainte-Laguë seat allocations
Voter Turnout in Western Europe since 1945 (pdf)
Approval Voting Home Page advocates "vote for as many as you like" in single-winner elections
Association of European Election Officials Various papers on electoral systems
electronic voting and Democracy
Voter Turnout around the world since 1945
Voting Systems FAQ
Table of Electoral Systems used worldwide
Election security and voting fraud
Yahoo elections page

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