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Papua New Guinea: election results by electorate

1987–2017 · 7 elections · PNG

SAGE has legislative election results for Papua New Guinea from 7 elections between 1987 and 2017: 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017. The smallest unit is the electorate. The 2017 election has 89 electorates, and 100% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.

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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.

Year	Election type	Vote type	Round	Units	% located	Votes	Polygons
1987	Legislative (unicameral)	First Round	1	88	100%	1,408,796	yes	[map]
1992	Legislative (unicameral)	First Round	1	88	100%	1,602,795	yes	[map]
1997	Legislative (unicameral)	First Round	1	89	100%	2,244,531	yes	[map]
2002	Legislative (unicameral)	First Round	1	88	100%	3,101,589	yes	[map]
2007	Legislative (unicameral)	First Round	1	85	100%	2,243,888	yes	[map]
	Legislative (unicameral)	Second Round	2	30	100%	495,675	yes
2012	Legislative (unicameral)	First Round	1	88	100%	3,585,728	yes	[map]
	Legislative (unicameral)	Second Round	2	82	100%	1,845,533	yes
2017	Legislative (unicameral)	First Round	1	89	100%	4,110,117	yes	[map]
	Legislative (unicameral)	Second Round	2	82	100%	2,198,670	yes

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 151 KB] [gpkg 9.9 MB] [parquet 4.8 MB] [rds 191 MB] [codebook 114 KB]

Year	Downloads
2017	[csv 33 KB] [gpkg 1.4 MB] [parquet 37 KB]
2012	[csv 32 KB] [gpkg 1.4 MB] [parquet 36 KB]
2007	[csv 20 KB] [gpkg 1.4 MB] [parquet 28 KB]
2002	[csv 26 KB] [gpkg 1.4 MB] [parquet 31 KB]
1997	[csv 18 KB] [gpkg 1.4 MB] [parquet 26 KB]
1992	[csv 15 KB] [gpkg 1.4 MB] [parquet 24 KB]
1987	[csv 14 KB] [gpkg 1.4 MB] [parquet 22 KB]

In R or Python:

R:      install.packages("sage")
        sage::sage_load("Papua New Guinea", years = 2017)

Python: import sage
        sage.sage_load("Papua New Guinea", years=[2017])

Sources

Wood (2019)

Notes

Party vote totals differ from Wikipedia aggregates by a notable margin.
Port Moresby district boundaries are manually estimated.
Coordinates across all years assume current districts boundaries.

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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