{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "text", "name": "country_name_short", "description": "three letter abbreviation of country -- iso alpha code", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "text", "name": "country_name", "description": "name of country", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "text", "name": "election_type", "description": "type of election -- 'parliament' or 'ep' election", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "date", "name": "election_date", "description": "Date the election took place. If the election lasted for several days, we code the last date.", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "real", "name": "vote_share", "description": "percentage of votes for a party", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "seats", "description": "number of seats won by party", "comment": "Seats coded for alliance members if information available. Coded as 0 for parties that won no seats and as missing value for electoral alliances if seats are coded at the level of alliance members."}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "seats_total", "description": "total number of seats", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "text", "name": "party_name_short", "description": "party abbreviation", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "text", "name": "party_name", "description": "original name of party with native characters (this field may require a change of character encodings on your local computer)", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "text", "name": "party_name_english", "description": "English name of party", "comment": null}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "real", "name": "left_right", "description": "0--10 scale mean value in left/right dimension with data from Castles/Mair 1983, Huber/Inglehart 1995, Benoit/Laver 2006 and CHES 2010", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "country_id", "description": "ParlGov unique identifier for each country. Other tables refer to this variable as 'country_id'.", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "election_id", "description": "ParlGov unique identifier for national and EP elections. Other tables refer to this variable as 'election_id'.", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "previous_parliament_election_id", "description": "'election_id' of previous national parliament election in the country", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "previous_cabinet_id", "description": "'cabinet_id' of incumbent government", "comment": ""}
{"table_name": "view_election", "type": "integer", "name": "party_id", "description": "ParlGov unique party identifier. Variable name 'id' in 'party' table and 'party_id' in all other tables.", "comment": ""}