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Afghanistan: election results by polling station

2018–2019 · 2 elections · AFG

SAGE has legislative and presidential election results for Afghanistan from 2 elections between 2018 and 2019: 2018 and 2019. The smallest unit is the polling station. The 2019 election has 25,075 polling stations, and 100% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.

Elections

Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.

YearElection typeVote typeRound Units% locatedVotes Polygons
2018Legislative (lower house)17,715100%3,294,827yes[map]
2019Presidential25,075100%1,824,391yes[map]

Download

csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet. rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.

All years: [csv 97 MB] [gpkg 2.2 MB] [parquet 10 MB] [rds 18 MB] [codebook 279 KB]

YearDownloads
2019[csv 2.3 MB] [gpkg 1.2 MB] [parquet 822 KB]
2018[csv 95 MB] [gpkg 1.0 MB] [parquet 8.3 MB]

In R or Python:

R:      install.packages("sage")
        sage::sage_load("Afghanistan", years = 2019)

Python: import sage
        sage.sage_load("Afghanistan", years=[2019])

Sources

Citation

Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse

Some of these data come from other researchers’ collections; see please also cite.

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