2019–2025 · 2 elections · MWI
SAGE has legislative and presidential election results for Malawi from 2 elections between 2019 and 2025: 2019 and 2025. The smallest unit is the polling station. The 2025 election has 15,148 polling stations, and 98% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.
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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.
| Year | Election type | Vote type | Round | Units | % located | Votes | Polygons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Legislative (unicameral) | 11,001 | 99% | 4,967,774 | yes | [map] | ||
| Presidential | 11,058 | 99% | 5,031,264 | yes | ||||
| 2025 | Legislative (unicameral) | 15,148 | 98% | 5,322,209 | yes | [map] | ||
| Presidential | 15,148 | 98% | 5,347,757 | yes |
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 4.4 MB] [gpkg 2.1 MB] [parquet 3.9 MB] [rds 6.1 MB] [codebook 548 KB]
| Year | Downloads |
|---|---|
| 2025 | [csv 2.9 MB] [gpkg 1.2 MB] [parquet 1.3 MB] |
| 2019 | [csv 1.6 MB] [gpkg 977 KB] [parquet 1.2 MB] |
In R or Python:
R: install.packages("sage")
sage::sage_load("Malawi", years = 2025)
Python: import sage
sage.sage_load("Malawi", years=[2025])
Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse
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