SAGE brings the availability of election results for the 2019 Indian Lok Sabha election down from an average of 2 million voters per each of 543 constituencies to 1,000 voters across nearly a million polling stations.

SAGE also enables analyses of previously more democratic elections in several current autocracies. Take, for instance, the 2013 Venezuelan presidential elections, mapped below at the polling station level.

Polling station data from SAGE reveal considerable spatial variation in the 2021 Hong Kong elections, with pro-establishment strongholds spread across the New Territories, mixed support patterns through Kowloon, and pockets of opposition votes concentrated on Hong Kong Island.

If you're interested in seeing any detailed election results from the Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) archive, let me know in the replies. I'll start with parliamentary elections in Poland in 1991 and 2023.

The results reveal considerable cross-national variation. In many countries, urban–rural differences are weak or even ideologically reversed (rural–left, urban–right), and their strength isn’t solely explained by economic development or industrial activity. (5/8)

Urban–rural cleavages are seen as a defining political divide. But does this polarization hold worldwide? My new working paper tests this question using an original dataset of granular, geocoded election returns from 106 countries (polling station-level in 70). (1/8)