Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Sources

This electronic resource consists of a series of volumes on selected Latin American countries that provide chronologies of elections since independence at the municipal, state, and federal levels and list sources of statistics for each election as identified. The statistics themselves are not reproduced here except occasionally for national-level results of presidential elections, seats won in congressional elections, or numbers of municipalities won by specific parties. I have made no attempt to evaluate the accuracy of the statistics, and multiple sources are listed as available to provide for comparison. While my focus is on identifying sources of electoral statistics, I have also included information on events affecting election outcomes; on the emergence and development of political parties; on electoral code changes; and on the roles of women, indigenous populations, and religious organizations in each country's electoral politics.

Each volume includes general information covering more than one election; a chronology from that country's date of independence to the present with elections, events, and sources of statistics; a list of related acronyms; and a bibliography of sources referred to in the chronology. Additional sections may be added depending on the complexity of organizing information on the elections for that country. A separate glossary provides English definitions of Spanish terms used in relation to elections.

Latin American Election Statistics is based on the extensive collection on Latin American elections in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library at the University of California, San Diego. Most of this material is readily available through interlibrary loan. I began the formal gathering of information in September 1998 for the volume on El Salvador, the country where I was born and grew up observing some of the events recorded here. Countries are added as completed, dates indicate when each volume was published electronically.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this publication or if I can be of assistance in your research.

Karen Lindvall-Larson
Latin American Studies Librarian
klindval@ucsd.edu

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