elezionistorico.interno.gov.it

Scraper for Historical archive of Italian elections published by the Italy's Ministry of Interior. The dataset is stored on Dataverse. To cite:

@data{QXUVIG_2018,
author = {Bailo, Francesco},
publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
title = {Historical Archive of Elections | elezionistorico.interno.gov.it},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.7910/DVN/QXUVIG},
url = {https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QXUVIG}
}

Source

elezionistorico.interno.gov.it is the web archive curated by Italy's Ministry of Interiors. It render Italian election and referendum results hold since 1946 at different level of granularity.

Code

The currently available scraping scripts are:

• scrape_19460602_F.py
• scrape_19480418-19920405.py
• scrape_20060409.py
• scrape_20161204_F.py
• scrape_20180304.py

UPDATE: Scraping is not required anymore since results data files at the level of comune are now served at this page elezioni.interno.gov.it/opendata.

Data

• Italian institutional referendum 2 June 1946
• Italian general elections 1948-1992 (Chamber of Deputy and Senate of the Republic
• General election 9 March 2006 (Chamber of Deputy)
• General election 13 April 2008 (Chamber of Deputy)
• Italian constitutional referendum 4 December 2016
• General elections 4 March 2018 (Chamber of Deputy and Senate of the Republic)