Müge Uğuz
Dataset · version 1.0

DEPART A Global Dataset of Nonresident Voter Registration and Turnout

Most countries now let citizens who live abroad vote in at least some national elections. DEPART records how many of them register and how many turn out: [N] elections in [N] countries from [YYYY] to [YYYY], with the number of nonresident voters registered, ballots cast from abroad, and how citizens abroad are allowed to vote.

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At a glance · [scope — e.g. most recent national election in each country]

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countries
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elections
0000–0000
years covered
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median turnout among registered nonresidents
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median turnout at home, same elections
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Voting from abroad, country by country

[One or two sentences on what visitors can do or see here — e.g. a world map of nonresident turnout, or the key figure from the paper.]

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What DEPART measures

[How an observation is defined (country-election? country-election-host country?), which elections are included (legislative, presidential, referendums), and the key variables: eligible / registered / voted abroad, voting method (embassy, postal, online, proxy), and representation (e.g. dedicated diaspora seats).]

Sources

[Where the figures come from — election management bodies, foreign ministries, official gazettes — and how missing or conflicting reports are handled.]

Coverage and limitations

[Temporal and geographic scope, plus known gaps — e.g. countries that do not report votes cast abroad separately.]

Files

FileWhat it is
depart_v1.0.csv[N rows and N variables, UTF-8 CSV.]
depart_v1.0.rdsThe same dataset in R format, with column types preserved.
depart_codebook_v1.0.pdfVariable definitions, sources, and coding rules.

Citation and licence

If you use DEPART, please cite:

Uğuz, Müge. 2026. “Beyond Borders: A Global Dataset of Nonresident Voter Registration and Turnout.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2026.

[Licence — e.g. CC BY 4.0 — and a dataset DOI once deposited.]

Contact

Questions, corrections, or new figures for a country: muge.uguz@gwu.edu.

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