View source for Election date lower legislative chamber

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|datatype=Date
|scale=Date
|valuelabels=Not applicable
|techname=polnat_polity_election_date_low
|category=Political factors
|label=Date of election to lower legislative chamber
|relatedindicators=
<ul>
  <li>[[Election dummy lower legislative chamber]]</li>
</ul>
|description=Date of an election to the 1st or lower legislative chamber.
|codingrules=
<ul>
  <li>Only elections to 1st or "lower" 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>
</ul>
For further coding rules see the codebook of Döring and Düpont 2020.

|citation=Döring, Holger, and Nils Düpont. 2020. "Elections Global: Election results in 207 countries, 1880–2015". Harvard Dataverse, V2. [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OGOURC https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OGOURC]
|relatedpublications=
|projectmanagers=Nils Düpont (A01), Paul Bederke
|datarelease=Not yet applicable
|revisions=Not yet applicable
|sources=
<ul>
  <li>Döring, Holger, and Nils Düpont. 2020. "Elections Global: Election results in 207 countries, 1880–2015". Harvard Dataverse, V2. [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OGOURC https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OGOURC]</li>
</ul>
}}